Laurie Toich, Assistant Editor

Quality measures for the management of NSCLC patients are only received by 13% of all eligible patients.

There was a 210% increase in NTM occurrence in patients with COPD taking ICS.

A combination of doxorubicin, all-trans retinoic acid, and entinostat shrank triple-negative breast cancer tumors by 90%.

A natural compound could increase the overall health of patients with diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

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A combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy could be effective in treating ovarian cancer.

Patients whose melanoma metastasized in their livers saw no disease progression after surgery and treatment with an immunotherapeutic vaccine.

Proposed changes from Medicare Payment Advisory Committee could increase cost-sharing for certain beneficiaries and eliminate cost-sharing for others.

Up to 25% of patients with lung cancer also have an autoimmune disease.

PEPFAR saw a 33% decrease in funding for HIV/AIDS services.

Anti-seizure drug granted tentative approval for a new indication that treats migraines.

The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is able to identify genetically similar diseases and could repurpose medications to treat these conditions.

The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is able to identify genetically similar diseases and could repurpose medications to treat these conditions.

Physicians are administering antiplatelet therapy more during or after percutaneous coronary intervention than prior to the procedure.

Nanoparticle thymulin gene therapy may reduce inflammation in chronic asthma.

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The same gene that causes Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome could play a part in HCV.

Providers need to better inform patients about the risks of heart disease compared with breast cancer.

Disability-free years and life expectancy increased significantly from 1992 to 2008.

Patients who underwent surgery and then standard treatment lived 9 months longer than patients who just had the standard treatment.

Researchers found that 80% of HIV-positive patients had increased aortic inflammation after starting antiretroviral therapy.

The compound 2-bromo-palmitate has the ability to inhibit EGFR.

A mathematical model can accurately find the optimal dosage for Rifapentine.

Stopping hyperglycemia-induced beta cell death could prevent diabetes.

Persistent VPC asthma was seen in 48% of patients in the TENOR II study.

Pembrolizumab found to prevent disease progression in 54.5% of patients with advanced thyroid cancer.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking glucocorticoids in certain doses may have an increased risk of developing diabetes.

Patients with squamous cell mouth cancer with an expressed spectrin gene have a 4.6 times higher death rate.

Gel nano-capsules with 2 shells keep drug molecules safe in transit.

Gene-replacement therapy successful in mouse model with spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress.