This Type Of Disaster Could Be The Most Dangerous Of All — And It’s A Mystery
Shortly after entering the field of public health in the early 1970s, Stephen Lester learned there was one thing he should steer clear of studying: how exposure to multiple chemicals at once might be devastating human health. It was nearly impossible to secure government grant money for mixture studies, due to monumental hurdles in interpreting […]
Kidney Week Roundup: Cell Therapy Cuts Immunosuppressive Drug Use Post-Transplant
PHILADELPHIA — Some of the latest research in the field of nephrology presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week included sparsentan in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, combination treatment with an SGLT2 inhibitor and an endothelin A receptor antagonist, and a novel aldosterone synthase inhibitor in chronic kidney disease. Below are a few more highlights. […]
Path to Multiple Sclerosis Cure on the Horizon
MILAN — A path to a cure for multiple sclerosis (MS) may be on the horizon, a top MS researcher suggested. The field faces a great opportunity to advance from suppressing the disease to curing it, said Stephen Hauser, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, in the keynote speech at the joint meeting […]
Pulsed Field Ablation Measures Up in Head-to-Head Trial
AMSTERDAM — Pulsed field ablation appeared as safe and effective as thermal ablation in treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib) in the first randomized head-to-head trial for the novel technology. Efficacy failure of the procedure — initial procedural failure, documented atrial tachyarrhythmia after a 3-month blanking period, antiarrhythmic drug use, cardioversion, or repeat ablation — at […]
Opinion | Can the Surgicalist Model Solve OR Staffing Challenges?
A number of factors are driving doctors out of the medical field, and our country’s healthcare system is at a crossroads. There are two important things healthcare leaders can do to ensure physicians working in critical roles, such as surgeons and anesthesiologists, stay in the profession and continue providing patients the care they deserve. First, […]
Antibody-Drug Conjugates Take Breast Cancer Field by Storm
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have taken the field of breast cancer by storm and appear poised to expand their reach into earlier lines of therapy and early-stage disease, a breast cancer specialist said here. ADCs offer an “exciting and effective drug delivery system” for multiple subtypes of metastatic breast cancer, and ongoing clinical trials are exploring […]
Opinion | ‘The Field in General Sucks’: What We Heard This Week
“The field in general sucks.” — Landon Myer, MD, PhD, of the University of Cape Town, on the decades-long dearth of new therapies in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. “The answer to what is fueling the rise of many brain diseases may be under our noses.” — Ray Dorsey, MD, of the University of Rochester in New York, […]
Tackling the Global Burden of Liver Cancer
MedPage Today brought together three leaders in the field of liver cancer to discuss the latest research and clinical advances. In this last of four exclusive episodes, moderator Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is joined by Amit Singal, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, […]
New optical tweezers put on the pressure to change color
One big stumbling block in the field of photonics is that of color control. Until now, to control color, i.e. the wavelength of light emission, researchers would have to alter the chemical structure of the emitter or the concentration of the solvent — all of which require direct contact, greatly limiting their application. “Such conditions […]
January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake provides valuable data for ground failure models
Field surveys conducted in the days after the 7 January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake documented more than 300 landslides and severe liquefaction in southern coastal regions, according to a new study by U.S. Geological Survey and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez researchers. The ground failure that resulted from the magnitude 6.4 earthquake wasn’t exceptional, especially […]