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Diabetes drug helps patients lose never-before-seen amounts of weight, new study shows Another obesity treatment approved last year called semaglutide, from Novo Nordisk, provides an average of up to about 15% weight loss. Previous generations of diet drugs cut only about 5% of weight and many carried prohibitive side effects.
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Circulating tumor DNA-guided approach safely reduces chemotherapy use in colon cancer CHICAGO — Circulating tumor DNA analysis safely reduced adjuvant chemotherapy use without compromising recurrence-free survival among patients with stage II colon cancer, according to results of the randomized phase 2 DYNAMIC trial.
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Liquid Biopsy Identifies Who Can Skip Chemo After Colon Cancer Surgery -Study (Reuters) - The following are summaries of some of the cancer research advances being presented the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
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Seniors prime target of weaker COVID-19 wave in Minnesota The 97-year-old was admitted to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis this week, despite the circulating strains of coronavirus appearing to cause less severe illness than earlier versions in the pandemic.
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Type 1 diabetes risk rises with BMI during adolescence "There were previous reports on the association between obesity and type 1 diabetes in previous cohorts that included mostly children," Gilad Twig, MD, PhD, a resident in the department of internal medicine at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, told ...
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ctDNA Effectively Detects When Adjuvant Chemo Is Avoidable in Stage II Colon Cancers Use of circulating tumor DNA to guide adjuvant treatment planning for patients with resectable colon cancer led to fewer patients receiving chemotherapy while maintaining outcomes, according to the DYNAMICS study. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) status ...
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Immunotherapy Combination Improves Survival in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer The trial enrolled patients with recurrent NSCLC previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Half of the patients were randomized to standard of care—either chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy plus ramucirumab, which is an anti-angiogenesis ...
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2 monkeypox strains in US suggest possible undetected spread NEW YORK (AP) — Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the U.S., health officials said Friday, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time.
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How Does Monkeypox Spread? Officials Warn on These Behaviors and Symptoms How Does Monkeypox Spread? Officials Warn on These Behaviors and Symptoms. How monkeypox spreads is suddenly becoming a crucial question for people as a viral outbreak crosses the country. Published June 4 ...
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Melatonin poisonings on the rise in US kids Melatonin poisoning in children has risen dramatically over the past decade, a new study suggests. Between 2012 and 2021, U.S. poison control centers saw a 530% increase in calls about children who had ingested large amounts of the sleep-aid supplement ...
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Multi-country monkeypox outbreak: Situation Update (4 June 2022) While the West African clade of the virus has been identified from samples of cases so far, most confirmed cases with travel history reported travel to countries in Europe and North America, rather than West or Central Africa where the monkeypox virus is ...
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Monkeypox is recapitulating the stigma and structural inequity of HIV, Ebola, and other diseases Pathogens have a way of shining a light on the darker facets of society. SARS-CoV-2 has certainly done that with Covid-19, and the monkeypox virus is doing it again. Pathogens don't discriminate like humans do — they have no innate capability of ...
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Research hastens to find out more about the impact of long COVID The latest finding from the Chinese study has roughly tallied with those in the ACT health system, in which the head of Canberra's post-COVID recovery clinic, Dr Philip Gaughwin, estimated between 5 to 15 per cent of patients reported ongoing long COVID ...
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Ontario COVID numbers: 671 people in hospital, 107 in intensive care Ten more deaths were recorded on Saturday, bringing the provincial death toll to 13,285. In terms of COVID cases, Ontario is reporting 901 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. This ...
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Chance of 'Aneurym Rupture' can be reduced via some blood pressure medicines Dallas [US], June 5 (ANI): A class of blood pressure-lowering medications, reduced the risk of aneurysm rupture by 18 per cent in a multi-centre study of more than 3,000 people with high blood pressure and brain aneurysms, according to new research by ...
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Very critical: WHO lists 5 preventive measures to stop human-to-human monkeypox transmission With over 780 monkeypox cases being detected in 27 countries, World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to take quick action so that the spread of the virus can be stopped. "And this is very critical as we are in a situation where we can use public ...
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Most of Florida at 'high' risk of COVID; cases hit 10200 a day Three-quarters of Floridians now live in counties at "high" risk of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Case counts and hospitalizations meet the CDC's criteria for "high" levels in 23 Florida counties — including ...
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A USF study shows retail and service workers have higher COVID-19 death rates Laborers and service industry workers with lower levels of education were about five times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people in higher socioeconomic positions, according to a study co-authored by a University of South Florida professor.
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Severe Covid cases 'more likely in highly polluted areas' People who contract Covid-19 are more likely to suffer severe symptoms if they have been exposed to air pollution for long periods. A study found that people who live in places where there are high levels of the atmospheric pollutant nitrogen dioxide ...
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