Battle of the Governors
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Opinion | I Love Being the ‘ER Dad’
Edwin Leap is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for 30 years since finishing residency. He currently works as an emergency physician for WVU Hospitals in Princeton, West Virginia. Follow Not long ago our charge nurse, Shawn, wrote my name on our emergency department dry erase board. Next to it she jokingly wrote, […]
Clinical Challenges: Sequencing in Metastatic, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
In the last few years there has been tremendous progress in the treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. “We are getting a lot of therapeutic options coming into this space,” said Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. “Trastuzumab [Herceptin] was the first, but we now have a […]
Opinion | Moving Beyond the ‘Angelina Jolie Effect’ to Address Cancer Disparities
Giri is a medical oncologist who specializes in clinical cancer genetics. *Patient’s name has been changed In room A is Tonya*, a 41-year-old African-American woman with metastatic breast cancer. In Room B is Joseph*, a 39-year-old Asian male with advanced colon cancer. As an oncologist who specializes in cancer genetics, I regularly see young patients […]
Regulation Gap Persists in OTC Eye Care Products
It’s been a bad year for over-the counter (OTC) eye care products and their consumers, with serial government warnings and company recalls of ocular washes, drops, tears, and ointment. And the current state of the OTC industry has U.S. ophthalmologists worried on two fronts, according to a viewpoint overview in JAMA Ophthalmology. “On one side, […]
Can COVID Cause Hearing Loss? Here’s What Doctors See In Patients.
Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman via Getty Images Researchers have been looking into the link between COVID-19 and hearing loss. Nearly four years since COVID-19 first made headlines, we now know that the disease is not just a respiratory problem. Non-breathing-related issues like joint pain, fatigue and even rashes are all documented COVID-19 symptoms. But one […]
Rapper Desiigner To Register As Sex Offender After Pleading Guilty To Masturbating On Plane
Rapper Desiigner has been ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty Thursday to a count of misdemeanor indecent exposure, multiple outlets have reported. The 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Sidney Royel Selby III, was reportedly questioned by police but not charged after exposing himself on an April 17 flight from Tokyo […]
Opinion | ‘This Has Never Been Shown Before in a Human’: What We Heard This Week
“This has never been shown before in a human.” — Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, on the successful pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant that assumed normal functioning in a brain-dead decedent. “High smoke days might be taking a toll on our brains.” — Boya Zhang, PhD, of […]
Opinion | In a Golden Age of Cancer Care, PBMs Are Holding Us Back
Patt is an oncologist specializing in breast cancer. *Patient name has been changed We’re living in a remarkable time for cancer treatment, when a diagnosis no longer disrupts how patients live and work. Unlike years ago, an advanced cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence for many. Today, most patients diagnosed with cancer can […]
Another HIV Patient Possibly Cured With Stem Cell Transplant
BRISBANE, Australia — Another HIV patient has been off antiretroviral medication for 20 months without detectable HIV levels after he underwent stem cell transplant to treat cancer — but, unlike previous “cures,” this patient’s donor stem cells did not have the mutation that confers resistance to HIV. Dubbed the “Geneva patient,” the man was diagnosed […]