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FDA Panel Recommends Monovalent COVID Vaccine for Next Season

(MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended Thursday that the next COVID vaccine should be a monovalent one in the JN.

Study Links GLP-1 Drugs to Lower Cancer Risk

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- In patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was associated with a lower risk of obesity-related cancers and death from any cause, a ta

STAT+: Merus drug, with immunotherapy, shows preliminary survival boost for patients with head and neck cancer

A Merus drug, combined with Keytruda, shows preliminary survival gains in newly diagnosed metastatic head and neck cancer

FDA Chief Defends Job Cuts, COVID Booster Policy at Senate Hearing

(MedPage Today) -- Seven weeks into his job as FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, MD, MPH, held his own answering a barrage of sometimes acrimonious questions from Senators about agency staffing cuts, l

Prasugrel Strategy Rolls Short DAPT and De-Escalation Into One

(MedPage Today) -- In acute coronary syndrome (ACS), a prasugrel (Effient)-based antiplatelet regimen passed muster for reducing bleeding without compromising ischemic protection after percutaneous c

Survival in Small-Cell Lung Cancer Improved With Cytotoxic Add-On to Immunotherapy

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) lived significantly longer with the addition of cytotoxic agent lurbinectedin (Zepzelca) to maintenance imm

Survival Win With Inavolisib-Based Triplet in PIK3CA-Mutated Breast Cancer

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Adding the PI3K-pathway inhibitor inavolisib (Itovebi) to palbociclib (Ibrance) and fulvestrant significantly improved survival in advanced breast cancer patients with

AI Assistance May Boost Accuracy of HER2-Low Scoring for Breast Cancers

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Artificial intelligence (AI) assistance appeared to enhance pathologists' accuracy in identifying HER2-low or -ultralow expression in breast cancer tissue, a global st

Mismatch Between Alzheimer's Biomarkers and Symptoms May Signal Multiple Pathologies

(MedPage Today) -- Older adults whose cognitive symptoms were more severe than their biological Alzheimer's disease stage often had additional pathologies, a cross-sectional study showed.

Key takeaways: RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report on chronic disease in children

Report ignores common dangers to children, focuses on Kennedy’s favored topics – and will be forcefully opposedDonald Trump’s health secretary and long-time vaccine skeptic, Robert F Kennedy Jr,

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