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• FDA Expands Use of SLIT Pollen Allergy Treatment to Children ALK's Ragwitek, a drug used to treat pollen-induced allergic reactions in adults, received FDA approval for use in children and adolescents.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Quinolones FDA Label Changes Resulted in Prescribing Decline A move by the FDA in 2016 to remove systemic quinolones' indication for acute uncomplicated UTI, acute sinusitis, and acute exacerbation of COPD reduced, but didn't eliminate, prescribing for these indications, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Adding Daratumumab to Triple Tx Might Help With Multiple Myeloma In patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, adding daratumumab to proteasome-inhibitor-based triple therapy showed high rates of MRD negativity and high progression-free survival, suggests a small study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Biologic Drug Nearly Doubles OS in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Immunomedics' antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan can cut the risk of disease progression or death by 59% and nearly double median overall survival, according to results from a phase-3 study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Losing Sleep Tied to Increased Systolic Blood Pressure in Women Losing just 1.5 hours of sleep a night leads to elevated systolic blood pressure in women, a small clinical trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Wildfire Air Pollution Linked to Jump in Atopic Dermatitis Clinic visits for eczema as well as itch in adults and children rose during a major Northern California wildfire, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Alert FDA Approves New Immunotherapy for Endometrial Cancer The accelerated approval for dostarlimab is for use in patients with recurrent or advanced endometrial cancers with deficient mismatch repair (dMMR).
  FDA Approvals, April 22, 2021
• Can We Get to 'COVID Zero'? Experts Predict the Next 8 Months Vaccines, variants, and seasonal variation all go into calculations about the likely future of the COVID-19 pandemic through next winter.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Small Clinics, Practices Key to COVID Vaccine Success: Officials The federal government will soon provide smaller vaccine shipments that can more easily be used by individual doctors.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Doctors Scramble to Understand Long COVID Medical experts are struggling to define or explain the lingering, debilitating symptoms that some COVID patients experience.
  Kaiser Health News, April 22, 2021
• UPDATE 1-U.S. FDA Finds Peeling Paint, Debris at U.S. Plant Making J&J's COVID-19 Vaccine
  Reuters Health Information, April 21, 2021
• Biden Offers Tax Credits for COVID-19 Vaccine Paid Time Off Businesses will be reimbursed for the cost of giving workers up to 80 hours in paid time off to get their shots and recover from side effects.
  WebMD Health News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 Long-term Benefit for DBS in Treating Parkinson's Motor Symptoms Deep brain stimulation significantly improves motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease over the long term regardless of the therapeutic target. However, nonmotor symptoms continued to progress, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Families, Doctors Urge Alabama to Reject Trans Treatment Ban "How am I hurting me or anyone else by wanting medical hormonal treatment? I do not want to be a pawn in a political agenda...," Phineas Smith, a 16-year-old transgender boy, said.
  Associated Press, April 22, 2021
• California and Texas Took Different Vaccine Routes. Who's Ahead? California stresses equity for minority groups. Texas is all about personal choice and liberty. Both are struggling to vaccinate Latinos and contending with vaccine hesitancy among conservative communities.
  Kaiser Health News, April 22, 2021
• Many Postsurgical Hospital Readmissions Preventable Could improved inpatient and ambulatory care lower the rate?
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 Novel Treatment Approach in Transthyretin Amyloidosis A potential new treatment option aimed at clearing amyloid deposits from vital organs has shown promising preliminary results in an initial clinical trial.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Postsurgical Percutaneous Nerve Stimulation Cuts Pain, Opioid Use 'The treatment effect was much greater than what we had anticipated,' the researchers note.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 The Neurology of Long-haul COVID-19 Clinical patterns and pathology are beginning to hint at the biology behind persistent neurologic complaints after COVID.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Gardening May Weed Out Dementia-Related Apathy Apathy is one of the most challenging symptoms of dementia. This novel approach uses gardening, plant-based crafts, and cooking to engage patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021