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• ASCO 2023 'Huge Step Forward' in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Adding both durvalumab and olaparib to standard-of-care treatment in newly diagnosed non-BRCA mutated advanced ovarian cancer represents a 'huge step forward,' says one expert.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2023
• EULAR 2023 AI Efforts Make Strides in Predicting Progression to RA Two independent efforts to use artificial intelligence to predict the development of early RA from patients with signs and symptoms not meeting full disease criteria showed good accuracy.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• How Fat Burden May Affect IBD Drug Dosing Target levels of infliximab in patients with IBD and high visceral adipose fat burden may be higher, suggesting the potential need to personalize dosing strategies.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• New Chronic Constipation Guideline Weighs Treatment Options Evidence for a range of prescription and over-the-counter therapies, along with specific recommendations for implementing them, are laid out in a joint AGA-ACG guideline.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Not Federally Funded The researchers looked at key social needs areas and found major gaps between what interventions cost and what's covered by federal payers.
  MDedge News, June 02, 2023
• EULAR 2023 Promising Telitacicept Results Reported for Lupus, Sjögren's Results of a phase 3 trial in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus showed a significantly greater response rate with telitacicept, compared with placebo.
  MDedge News, June 02, 2023
• Anxiety, Your Brain, and Long COVID: What the Research Says Having anxiety and depression before a SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of developing long COVID.
  WebMD Health News, June 02, 2023
• FDA Revokes EUA for J&J's COVID Vaccine The US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has revoked the emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• AstraZeneca to Stop Developing Crohn's Disease Drug British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Thursday it would stop developing its drug brazikumab to treat inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• Choosing SPF Is Only the Start When Recommending Sunscreens A recent study found that 43% of dermatologists surveyed reported that they never, rarely, or only sometimes took a patient's skin type into account when making sunscreen recommendations.
  MDedge News, June 02, 2023
• Pfizer: Antibiotic Combo Can Treat Some Superbug Infections Pfizer Inc said Thursday that data from late-stage trials showed its experimental combination of antibiotics was effective in treating deadly infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• Tunisia's Finances Leave Sick Struggling to Find Medicine Sick Tunisians face a frantic struggle to find some medicines because the cash-strapped state has reduced imports, leaving doctors unable to control debilitating health problems.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• SCOTUS Gives Boost to Whistleblowers in Drug Pricing Case The US Supreme Court gave a boost to whistleblowers in their bid to revive lawsuits accusing pharmacy operators of knowingly overbilling government health insurance programs for prescription drugs at taxpayer expense.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• J&J Secures Dismissal of Whistleblower Case A federal appeals court, in a decision unsealed Wednesday, upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson as a sanction for the plaintiffs' misuse of confidential records they obtained through related litigation.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• 7 Tactics to Reduce EHR Tasks and Save Time The EHR is a major source of frustration for doctors. Here's how some hospitals and doctors are eliminating time-consuming tasks.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• Intervention Reduces Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage by 60% A study conducted in various African nations suggests that the new approach could radically improve women's chances of surviving childbirth internationally.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• Biden Plans to Pick Former N.C. Health Secretary to Lead CDC President Biden plans to select former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a source familiar with the matter.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2023
• Listening Habits May Affect Music's Benefits for Memory Researchers found that music's positive effects on memory are modulated by differences between patients relating to the use of music in their lives.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• MDs With Chronic Illness Live in a Different Medical World Physicians with chronic illnesses face unique professional challenges, including resistance from other physicians when they seek treatment. But they also have a much richer understanding of their own patients.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• Continuous Glucose Monitors Come to Hospitals The technology could improve care for hospitalized people with diabetes, experts say, but it's too early to abandon other glucose measurement tools.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023