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• EU Commission Allocates $1.3 Billion to Tackle Mental Health The European Commission said Wednesday it would allocate $1.2 billion euros to mental health initiatives across the 27-member European Union and make mental health a pillar of health policy.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• Neuromuscular Disorder Therapy Fails Late-Stage Study FibroGen Inc's treatment for patients with a muscle-wasting disorder that typically binds them to a wheelchair failed to improve measures of upper limb strength.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• Eisai-Biogen Alzheimer's Drug Data Confirms Benefits: FDA US Food and Drug Administration staff on Wednesday said data from a late-stage trial of Eisai and Biogen's Alzheimer's disease drug suggests it offered a meaningful benefit to patients.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• Teva to Pay Nevada $193 Million Over Role in Opioid Epidemic Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Wednesday agreed to pay Nevada $193 million to settle claims that its marketing practices fueled opioid addiction, the state announced.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• First Swine Fever Vaccine Nears Approval in Vietnam Vaccines against African swine fever being tested in Vietnam are close to approval, global and US veterinary officials said, in what would be a major breakthrough to tackle the deadly animal disease.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• What Are the Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke? The northeastern United States is blanketed under a pungent haze caused by smoke carried down from wildfires burning in Canada that contains a host of noxious gases and particulate matter.
  Reuters Health Information, June 07, 2023
• Alert EU Approves Bimekizumab for PsA and AxSpA The drug is the first IL-17 inhibitor approved to treat both conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023
• Is ChatGPT a Friend or Foe of Medical Publishing? The popular AI chatbot has prompted journal editors to write new policies to address a wave of manuscripts that use ChatGPT and other tools like it.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023
• ASCO 2023 First or Second-Line CDK4/6 Inhibition in Breast Cancer? Patients with advanced ER+/HER2– breast cancer receiving first line CDK4/6 inhibitor therapy experienced no progression-free survival or overall survival advantages compared to second line therapy.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Sequencing Strategy in Ovarian Cancer Helps Guide Treatment A targeted genetic sequencing strategy effectively identified homologous recombination DNA repair deficiency in ovarian cancer patients, and may eventually help predict treatment response.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Metronomic Therapy Effective in Head and Neck Cancer In the second-line setting of head and neck cancer, metronomic triple therapy outperformed clinician choice chemotherapy in both progression-free survival and overall survival.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Antibody Linked to Spontaneous Reversal of ATTR-CM Identification of an antibody linked to spontaneous reversal of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis may represent a novel approach to treatment of this progressive and fatal condition.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023
• Medicaid Patients With Heart Failure Get Poor Follow-Up The cohort included 9,857 adults with diabetes and first hospitalizations for heart failure who were covered by Alabama Medicaid during 2010-2019.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Burnout Threatens Primary Care Workforce Health systems across the country are trying to boost morale and keep clinicians from quitting or retiring early, but the stakes are higher than workforce shortages.
  KFF Health News, June 08, 2023
• Exercise, Empathy Helps Back Pain Patients in Primary Care Regardless of treatment type, patients report that empathy and clear communication from their doctors go a long way in their satisfaction with pain management.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• ASCO 2023 PMBCL: Postremission, Patients May Safely Skip Radiation Radiation therapy may be safely omitted for patients with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) who achieved a complete metabolic response after immunochemotherapy.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Stress Cardiovascular MRI Accurate, Prognostic in Chest Pain A new review shows the non-invasive test provides high diagnostic accuracy vs other modalities and adds prognostic value when assessing patients with chest pain.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023
• Gout Linked to Smaller Brain Volume, Neurodegeneration Risk Patients with gout may have smaller brains with more iron, and they may be at increased risk for dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in the first 3 years after diagnosis.
  MDedge News, June 08, 2023
• Muscle Fat: A New Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline? Increased muscle fat may be a novel risk factor for cognitive decline in older adults, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023
• Advances in HIV Vaccine Research Show Promise for Prevention In their search for an effective HIV vaccine, researchers have explored several platforms and targets to generate a robust immune response.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2023