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Shoulder Arthritis / Rotator Cuff Tears: Causes Of Shoulder Pain   5 hours ago

Authors: Luke Wohlford, MD (EM Resident Physician, University of Vermont Medical Center) and Joseph Kennedy, MD (EM Attending Physician, University of Vermont Medical Center) // Edited by: Summer Chavez, DO, MPH, MPM (EM Attending Physician, University of Houston), Marina Boushra (EM-CCM Attending Physician, Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Case A 35-year-old female with no signifi...

Emdocs   6 hours ago

Updated dose expansion data of the phase I STRO-002-GM1 study have been presented today by Ana Oaknin, Principal Investigator of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Gynecological Malignancies Group, on the ground at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2-6 June in Chicago, U.S.....

Medical Xpress   8 hours ago

The virus causing record cases of avian influenza in birds across the world is changing rapidly, experts have warned, as calls increase for countries to vaccinate their poultry....

Medical Xpress   9 hours ago

#ASCO23 A “twinning program” between a San Diego and Tijuana hospital reduced survival disparities for childhood leukemia....

STAT   9 hours ago

HER2-targeted bispecific antibody zanidatamab demonstrated durable responses in patients with treatment-refractory HER2-positive biliary tract cancer (BTC), researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The study results also were published today in The Lancet Oncology....

Medical Xpress   9 hours ago

The Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST), used in many clinical trials to evaluate changes in tumor burden over time, classify objective tumor response into one of four categories (complete or partial response, or stable or progressive disease) based on the percent of change in the sum of the longest diameters of a set of target lesions....

Medical Xpress   9 hours ago

Various medications can be prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in individuals at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, but it's often unclear which patients will benefit most from which drugs....

Medical Xpress   9 hours ago

A most memorable message awaited me on my desk one morning: a brief note from Mrs. G asking, “Why did my husband take his own life today?” Startled, I reflected on Mr. G’s history as I had been treating him in my urology clinic for the past few months. It had recently come to my Read more… The tragic story of Mr. G: a painful journey towards understanding su...

KevinMD.com   11 hours ago