Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff June 3, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up …
CHICAGO — An “adaptive response” treatment strategy identified a subset of patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who benefited from a chemotherapy-free treatment plan, according to the phase II PHERGain trial. The strategy is based on evaluating an early response to a dual HER2 blockade with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) with 18F-FDG PET imaging …
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MILAN — About half of patients receiving infusions of a novel uricase analog, along with a proprietary rapamycin formulation, in two similarly designed phase III studies got their serum urate under control, after multiple other medications had failed to do so, a researcher said here. Dubbed SEL-212, the treatment combines a pegylated form of uricase …
MILAN — An investigational protein drug called dazodalibep with broad-spectrum activity against autoimmune pathways reduced symptoms of Sjögren’s syndrome in a two-stage, phase II randomized trial with a unique design. Called ALISS, the placebo-controlled trial targeted two different populations, each reported in separate presentations at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) annual meeting. …
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When the first season of Manifest began airing on NBC in 2018, it seemed at first to be yet another successor to LOST: an ensemble drama revolving around a missing flight and cryptic, supernatural occurrences. But the drama series soon found its audience, thanks to some propulsive, increasingly wacky plotting, and it ran for three …
Immediately after getting off a long-haul flight, Chris Hemsworth does exactly one thing: he hits the gym to fight his way through jet lag. The actor just shared a look at his latest workout on Instagram after arriving in Los Angeles and making his way directly to celebrity trainer Grant Roberts’ gym, where he announced …
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Chad Michael Murray is looking even fitter in his early forties than he was during his peak heartthrob years. The actor, who rose to fame playing Lucas Scott in the teen drama One Tree Hill, just shared a glimpse of his lean, defined physique in a shirtless video over on his wife Sarah Roemer’s Instagram …
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When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out in 2018, it felt like a reinvention of the superhero story. Stunning animation, strong voice acting, and a stellar storyline made the movie one of the biggest Marvel releases outside of the main MCU franchise. In November 2018, it was no surprise when Variety announced the film would …
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The following story contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. ONE OF the most exciting things about the Spider-Verse animated films is that the world in which they exist is so big, and so expansive, that it’s been easily established that just about anything could happen. After all, 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse featured direct …
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June 2, 2023 – Last month, journalist and actor Maria Menounos told People that she’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after having a full-body MRI scan. The scan had detected a 1.5-inch mass on her pancreas after CT scans and other testing couldn’t find a problem. A biopsy confirmed the mass was a stage II pancreatic …
Do You Need A Full-Body MRI Scan? Probably Not, Experts Say Read More »