Financial Toxicity Among Single Mothers With Metastatic Breast Cancer Diagnosis coupled with financial burden makes for a difficult situation, but help is out there Dec 29, 2023 video
On the Health Docket for the Supreme Court's 2024 Term An alarming agenda with potentially grave consequences for public health Dec 28, 2023
Supreme Court to Weigh in on Abortion Pill Access The nation's high court will consider the Fifth Circuit's ruling on mifepristone Dec 28, 2023
Benzodiazepine Use in Pregnancy Tied to Miscarriage Risk Taiwanese study attempted to control for unmeasured confounders Dec 27, 2023
Do You Believe in These Medical Superstitions? "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious" -- Michael Scott, "The Office" Dec 27, 2023
Gonorrhea, Then and Now And when -- if ever -- will resistant super-bugs increase the use of condoms? Dec 22, 2023
SABCS 2023 Highlights Open the Door for More Key Data in 2024 Virginia Kaklamani, MD, discusses this year's sessions of interest and looks ahead to next year Dec 22, 2023 video
MedPod Today: Long COVID and Stem Cells; An Unusual Pregnancy; New Cannabinoids ֱ reporters offer further insights on these recently covered topics Dec 22, 2023 podcast
People Drop the Ball When It Comes to Safe Sex on New Year's Eve Study finds large spike in emergency contraception sales the week after Dec 20, 2023 video
Antibiotic After Sex No Help in Preventing STIs in Women Poor adherence may be to blame in this Kenyan population, researchers say Dec 20, 2023
Ozanimod Did Not Appear to Lead to More Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes However, avoiding pregnancy when on the IBD/MS drug still advised Dec 19, 2023
Maternal Flu Shot Protects Infants Against Severe Disease Vaccine effectiveness was better when mom was vaccinated during third trimester Dec 19, 2023
Sharp Uptick in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Visits After ACA's Passage Large database analysis shows room for more HIV testing, prevention Dec 18, 2023
Intervention Improves Outcomes For Women With Previous C-Section Risk assessment, decision-making support reduced major perinatal and maternal morbidity Dec 18, 2023
Matthew Perry's Cause of Death; Woman's 'Abuse of a Corpse' Charge; HIV in Girls Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Dec 18, 2023
Cannabis Exposure During Pregnancy; Tirzepatide Cessation and Weight Gain Also in TTHealthWatch: newer vaccine technologies in adults Dec 16, 2023 podcast
Atezolizumab Plus Carboplatin Boosts Survival in Metastatic TNBC But editorialists note that with recent advances, "it is hard to justify" use of combination Dec 15, 2023
A Medical Breakthrough for Postpartum Depression Within a Deeply Flawed System Issues of equity and access persist for mental healthcare Dec 15, 2023
Trump's Cognitive Exam; CDC Issues 'Urgent' Vaccination Alert; Plan B Use Doubled Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ֱ staff Dec 15, 2023
Baby Delivered From Rare Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy Both the mother and neonate survived, making the case extra rare Dec 13, 2023
Early Detection Is Key to Higher Cure Rates in Ovarian Cancer "We are not aware of precancer stages for ovarian cancer" Dec 13, 2023
One in Five BRCA-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Able to Conceive Disease-free survival comparable between patients who did and did not become pregnant Dec 12, 2023
KEYNOTE-A18 Data Are 'Practice-Changing' for Cervical Cancer Domenica Lorusso details the importance of modern radiotherapy in this regimen Dec 12, 2023
Metformin for Diabetes in Pregnancy: Maybe Not, Trial Says New trial complicates findings of previous studies Dec 12, 2023
Very Early ART Can Result in Sustained HIV Suppression in Neonates Newborns should be diagnosed "super early" and receive ART in maternity ward, experts say Dec 11, 2023
Giving Oropharyngeal Surfactant at Birth Is No Help to Preemies Increased rates of pneumothorax emerged among newborns treated prophylactically Dec 11, 2023
Add-On Inavolisib Ups PFS in PIK3CA-Mutated Breast Cancer Triplet therapy may surpass benefits of current "pretty active doublet" therapy, expert says Dec 10, 2023
Bispecific Antibody Combination Active in Metastatic HR+/HER2+ Breast Cancer Two-thirds of patients progression free at 6 months with zanidatamab, palbociclib, fulvestrant Dec 10, 2023
Less-Frequent Surveillance Mammo Feasible in Older Breast Cancer Survivors No difference for survival outcomes for annual versus around every 2 years Dec 09, 2023
AI and Breast Cancer Screening; Cancer After Treatment for Sickle Cell Also in TTHealthWatch: mail-in cervical cancer screening kits Dec 09, 2023 podcast
Yes, Conversion Therapy Efforts Still Exist in Medical Practice Leading health associations want to end this harmful approach Dec 09, 2023
Bilateral Mastectomy Not Tied to Better Survival in BRCA1-Positive Breast Cancer However, the surgery did reduce risk of contralateral breast cancer Dec 09, 2023
Is Omitting Radiation Therapy in Low-Risk Breast Cancer a Good IDEA? Local recurrence rate of 1% at 5 years in women ages 50-69 with genomically low-risk disease Dec 08, 2023
Kidney Disease in Pregnancy Often Overlooked for Care These women had less nephrology care prior to end-stage disease onset Dec 08, 2023
Prenatal RSV Infection Linked to Fetal Inflammation, Poorer Growth Study may give force to recommendations for maternal RSV vaccination Dec 08, 2023
Study Supports ADC as a New Option for Endocrine-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer Datopotamab deruxtecan was safe and boosted quality of life Dec 08, 2023
Maintenance Pembrolizumab-Olaparib Fails to Boost Survival in TNBC But better safety profile versus continued pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy Dec 08, 2023
Study 'Underscores' Value of Early Fertility Counseling for Breast Cancer Patients Younger age, embryo/oocyte cryopreservation at diagnosis tied to an increased chance of pregnancy Dec 08, 2023
More Awareness Needed of Heart Events Tied to Breast Cancer Drugs, Experts Say Myriad clinical manifestations of cardiotoxicity must be diagnosed, treated promptly Dec 08, 2023
Adding Immunotherapy to Neoadjuvant Chemo Boosts pCR in HR-Positive Breast Cancer Promising early results with pembrolizumab, nivolumab but event-free survival data still pending Dec 07, 2023