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• Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy Noninferior to Open Procedures for Gastric Cancer Patients with locally advanced gastric cancer have similar 5-year overall survival outcomes with laparoscopic and open distal gastrectomy, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Overtreatment of Early Papillary Thyroid Neoplasms Continues, Despite Preventive Strategies Strategies to prevent overtreatment of papillary thyroid carcinomas have had mixed success, a cohort study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Atezolizumab, Nivolumab Tied to Longer Survival Than Docetaxel in Advanced Lung Cancer Patients with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer who are treated with atezolizumab or nivolumab appear to survive longer than those treated with docetaxel, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Hybrid Closed-Loop Therapy Boosts Glycemic Control in Youth With Type 1 Diabetes In children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, a hybrid closed-loop system significantly improved glycemic control and quality of life compared with conventional management, researchers in Australia have found.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Guselkumab Boosts Response in Resistant Psoriatic Arthritis In patients with psoriatic arthritis who are resistant to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, guselkumab was more effective than placebo in a phase 3b trial.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Value of Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Shot in Patients With Solid-organ Transplants Questionable Giving solid-organ-transplant recipients a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine may lead to only a slight improvement in SARS-CoV-2 antibody concentrations for some patients, according to a study from France.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• How South African Scientists Spotted the Omicron COVID Variant On November 19, Raquel Viana, head of science at one of South Africa's biggest private testing labs, sequenced the genes on eight coronavirus samples and got the shock of her life.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• The Race Is on to Trace the New COVID-19 Variant Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent cases of COVID-19 infections, screening travellers and decoding the viral genomes of the new variant as they try to measure how far it has spread.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Omicron Variant Could Outcompete Delta, South African Disease Expert Says The Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa could be the most likely candidate to displace the highly contagious Delta variant, the director of South Africa's communicable disease institute said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• BioNTech CEO Says Vaccine Likely to Protect Against Severe COVID From Omicron BioNTech and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine will likely offer strong protection against any severe disease from the new Omicron virus variant, BioNTech's Chief Executive has said.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• GSK Names Pfizer Scientist Dormitzer as Vaccines R&D Head GSK has hired one of the scientists behind Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 shot, Phil Dormitzer, as its global head of R&D for vaccines and he will join the British drugmaker, GSK said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• WHO's Tedros Warns Against Overreaction to Omicron The head of WHO voiced concern on Tuesday that some countries were introducing blanket measures against the Omicron coronavirus variant that may not be necessary and penalized African nations unfairly.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Regeneron Says Its COVID-19 Antibody Drug Could Be Less Effective Against Omicron Regeneron Pharmaceuticals's COVID-19 antibody treatment and other similar drugs could be less effective against the new Omicron coronavirus variant, the company said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2021
• Support for Early Surgery in Older Adults With Primary Hyperparathyroidism Parathyroidectomy is associated with a lower risk of fracture compared with nonsurgical management among older adults with primary hyperparathyroidism, a new study indicates.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Amylin Analogue Leads to Significant Weight Loss in Obese Adults Treatment with cagrilintide in overweight or obese adults led to significant reductions in bodyweight and was well tolerated in a phase 2 clinical trial of the new amylin agent.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Telehealth Exercise and Diet Programs Curb Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis In patients with knee osteoarthritis, telehealth-delivered exercise and diet programs are superior to electronic health information for reducing pain and improving function, a randomized trial shows.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test for Unexplained Dyspnea in COVID Long-Haulers Cardiopulmonary exercise testing can help define the cause of unexplained dyspnea in patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, report clinicians in New York.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• WHO Flags Global Risk From Omicron, Countries Tighten Curbs The Omicron variant of the coronavirus carries a very high global risk of surges, the WHO has warned, as more countries reported cases, prompting border closures and reviving worries about the economic recovery.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Moderna Can Take Months to Ship Omicron-Specific Vaccine, Says CEO Moderna could take months to begin shipping a COVID-19 vaccine that works specifically against the Omicron variant, its chief executive officer, Stéphane Bancel, has said.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Vaccines Should Give Good Protection Against Omicron: Expert Existing COVID-19 vaccines should be highly effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization from the newly identified Omicron variant, a top South African infectious disease expert said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021