Credit: Wellness Gallery Catalyst Foundation from Pexels If you were to ask most people what causes cancer, the answer would probably be smoking, alcohol, the sun, hair dye or some other avoidable element. But the most important risk factor for cancer is something else: aging. That’s right, the factor mostContinue Reading
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VIENNA — The use of expanded-criteria donors for kidney transplantation in older and high-risk recipients did not provide the same survival benefit as the use of standard donors, according to an analysis of data from more than 64,000 individuals in the European Renal Association (ERA) Registry, using target trial emulation. Continue Reading
The combination of trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu) with pertuzumab (Perjeta) as a first-line treatment for HER2-positive advanced metastatic breast cancer has been shown to reduce the risk for disease progression or death by more than the current standard-of-care treatment. Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber CancerContinue Reading
TOPLINE: Interleukin (IL)-23p19 inhibitors guselkumab and risankizumab demonstrated the highest drug survival for effectiveness and safety comparable with ustekinumab over 2 years, exceeding that of all other biologics. IL-17 receptor inhibitor brodalumab showed comparable effectiveness and safety with adalimumab and secukinumab. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a cohort study using data fromContinue Reading
TOPLINE: Prenatal exposure to triptans, alone or with other migraine medications, was not associated with a significantly increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in children born to mothers with a history of migraine in a new study. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a registry-based cohort study in Norway, using data from multipleContinue Reading
Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Dan: Hey there. Mark Taylor is a reporter, and when he started covering health care in the 1990s,Continue Reading
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