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Conference Coverage
Precision medicine takes individual approach to diabetes
“Because diabetes is an incredibly heterogeneous disease, few people are Mr. or Mrs. ‘average’ and one-size-fits-all approaches fail many people...
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What is the future for multicancer early-detection tests?
Liquid biopsies based on genomic biomarkers could make MCED a reality, especially for cancers for which there is no standard screening process.
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Spironolactone safe, effective option for women with hidradenitis suppurativa
“Combining different treatment options that target different pathophysiologic factors is usually required to achieve adequate disease control in...
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Should children know the severity of their disease? AAP weighs in with report
The default should be to include children in conversations about their illness in a developmentally appropriate way, AAP says.
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These adverse events linked to improved cancer prognosis
Emerging evidence suggests that cutaneous immune-related adverse events may be linked with favorable outcomes among patients with cancer who...
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Lack of medical device tracking leaves patients vulnerable
As a result of this siloing of information, patients are not getting the expected benefits of a regulation finalized over a decade ago by the FDA...
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Does continuity of care affect outcomes after arthroplasty?
“Their main message quantified what many of us in health care already sense is true: That patients do benefit when there’s somebody, specifically...
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Hidradenitis suppurativa experts reach consensus on treatment outcome measures
“The intent of these recommendations is to provide an objective framework with both clinician and patient input that can facilitate bidirectional...
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Hidradenitis suppurativa experts reach consensus on treatment outcome measures
“The intent of these recommendations is to provide an objective framework with both clinician and patient input that can facilitate bidirectional...
Commentary
Overburdened: Health care workers more likely to die by suicide
It’s time we acknowledge and support the people in our profession who seem to be suffering more than any of us: the aides, the techs, the support...
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The unappreciated healing power of awe
“Feelings of isolation are quite difficult, and we’re social creatures, so when we feel connected, we can benefit from it.”