What Does Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria Feel Like? RSD
Rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) is a severe emotional response to rejection in the form of extreme rage or overwhelming hopelessness Rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) is a severe emotional response to rejection, whether real or perceived, in the form of extreme rage or overwhelming hopelessness. Of course, rejection hurts, and it is normal to feel sad […]
Are Nurse Staffing Agencies Overcharging Hospitals?
A group of U.S. senators and representatives penned a letter to the COVID-19 Response Team and other agencies on Wednesday, urging them to investigate allegations of overpricing by nurse staffing agencies relied on to fill gaps in hospital staffing during the pandemic. In the letter, Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), and […]
Vaccine Proselytizing in Burkina Faso
Vaccine hesitancy challenges our response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and around the world. I recently had a chance to address this issue first-hand while visiting my research collaborators in Burkina Faso. COVID-19 vaccines have been in short supply in Africa. But, things have improved, and the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines […]
Chemo Triplet May Boost Survival in Rare Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
Adding temozolomide to a combination of vincristine and irinotecan (VIT) improved tumor response and survival in patients with relapsed or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma in a European phase II trial. In the trial of over 100 patients, the group who received temozolomide had a numerically improved objective response rate (ORR) after two cycles of treatment versus the […]
Did Tdap Shot Delay Immunogenicity of COVID Vaccine?
A 29-year-old female healthcare worker presented for a blood test to confirm a response to her initial COVID-19 vaccine. A day after receiving the vaccine she fell, which resulted in wounds that required tetanus prophylaxis, so she received the Tdap (tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis) vaccine. Her medical history included acne vulgaris […]
Simone Biles Reveals What She ‘Never Truly Believed’ About Herself Until Now
Champion gymnast Simone Biles said Wednesday that the supportive response to her withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics has made her realize she’s more than her sport. “The outpouring love & support I’ve received has made me realize I’m more than my accomplishments and gymnastics which I never truly believed before,” she tweeted. Biles withdrew from […]
Early Promise for Pembrolizumab Plus Chemo in RR Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
A chemoimmunotherapy regimen led to a 100% response rate as second-line therapy for relapsed/refractory (RR) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), a small phase II trial showed. All 38 evaluable patients achieved objective responses with the combination of pembrolizumab (Keytruda), gemcitabine, vinorelbine, and liposomal doxorubicin (P-GVD), including complete responses in 36 of 38 cases. All but two […]
Liver Fibrosis Linked to Lower Response to COVID Vaccine
An evaluation of antibody titers developed in response to the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine appeared to show a correlation between low response and advanced liver fibrosis, researchers from Israel reported. In a cohort of 140 patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the more advanced the fibrosis was, the less of a response patients had to […]