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• Can Glucarpidase Help Reverse Methotrexate Kidney Damage? Outcomes in methotrexate-induced kidney injury have shown improvement through treatment with the enzyme glucarpidase.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• SABCS 2024 Can Some Patients Safely Skip Postmastectomy Radiation? Most women with intermediate-risk breast cancer can safely skip chest wall irradiation after mastectomy and avoid the risks for chest wall pain, fibrosis, heart damage, and lung cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services? Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Biomarkers Predict Lung Disease Outcome in SSc-ILD Therapy Patients with SSc-ILD who showed an increase in the level of blood biomarker KL-6 after 1 year of treatment were at risk of developing progressive pulmonary fibrosis in the second year.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• KRAS Mutation Types Shape Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes Researchers assessed the association of KRAS mutations in metastatic PDAC with the clinical outcomes and responses to first-line chemotherapy regimens.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Inventory System Supplier Settles Anti-Kickback Claim A specialty pharmacy company agreed to a $1.67 million settlement that it gave inventory management systems to retina specialty practices for free in exchange for drug orders.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• SABCS 2024 CDK 4/6 Blocker Prolongs Survival in HER2+ Breast Cancer “Incredible” results from the PATINA trial suggested a new standard of care for HER2, ER-positive metastatic breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Scientific Publications Face Credibility Crisis Are scientific publications losing credibility? AI and low-quality submissions undermine research integrity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Remimazolam-Flumazenil Combo Cuts Extubation Time in TAVI Compared with sevoflurane, a combination of remimazolam and flumazenil reduced the time to extubation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation by approximately 7 minutes, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Reducing Risk, One Mask at a Time: What the Science Says Could masks create a comeback as we move beyond COVID-19? Here are the latest insights into their impact and effectiveness on public health.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• How Does End of Life Impact Diabetes Care? Older adults with type 2 diabetes received fewer noninsulin diabetes medications in their final year of life, but insulin use increased, especially among those who were frailer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• New Therapy Brings Hope for Dry AMD Vision Loss The FDA has approved a first-of-its-kind treatment for dry age–related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in adults over 55.
  WebMD Health News, January 08, 2025
• Dietary Calcium Cuts Colorectal Cancer Risk by 17% The largest ever study on the link between diet and bowel cancer has confirmed a protective effect of dietary calcium.
  Medscape News UK, January 08, 2025
• MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous? MRI-invisible lesions are real. Experts debate what these lesions really mean for patient outcomes and care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• TBI May Reactivate Herpes Virus Leading to Neurodegeneration Mild traumatic brain injury leads to reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1, which may promote neurodegeneration and contribute to Alzheimer’s, new research suggested.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Family Physicians See Culture Improve, Challenge RVU System Family physicians saw improvements in workplace culture but questioned the effectiveness of RVU metrics to measure productivity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• PSMA-PET Challenges Current Prostate Cancer Staging Researchers conducted a post hoc, retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of 182 patients with recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, definitive radiotherapy, or salvage radiotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Loneliness and Social Isolation Leave a Mark on the Blood New research sheds light on the biology underlying the connection between loneliness and social isolation and adverse health outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Personalized Care Can Ease Preoperative Anesthesia Anxiety A brief, tailored psychoeducational intervention reduced anesthesia-related anxiety in patients seeking support prior to surgery, offering a safe and effective alternative to anxiolytic premedication, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025