Online Gender-Affirming Services Can Be Appealing, Though Often Don’t Take Insurance
MIAMI — Some telemedicine companies offering gender-affirming hormone treatment offered an affordable alternative to traditional care models, a researcher reported at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) annual meeting. A review of available services from six direct-to-consumer platforms — Folx Health, True U Clinic, QueerDoc, Q, TransClinique, and Plume — found that all […]
FDA Broadens Options for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma With Teclistamab
Treatment options for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma continue to expand with FDA’s accelerated approval of teclistamab (Tecvayli). The approval stipulates use of the bispecific antibody in adults who have received at least four prior therapies, including an immunomodulator, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 antibody (triple-class refractory disease). The first approved drug of its kind, teclistamab […]
Cutting Unneeded Urine Cultures a Good First Step to Less Antibiotic Use
WASHINGTON — Michigan hospitals were able to cut down on unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) thanks to better diagnostic stewardship, according to a study. The percentage of patients with a positive urine culture who had ASB fell from 34.1% in the year 2017 to 22.5% in 2020 in a consortium of 46 hospitals. That […]
Transgender Teens Seldom Abandon Hormones as Young Adults
Nearly all individuals with gender dysphoria who initiated hormone treatment as adolescents continued that treatment into adulthood, a Dutch observational study found. Among 720 people who started puberty suppressing hormones prior to the age of 18, 704 (98%) continued to use gender-affirming hormones after turning 18, reported Chantal Wiepjes, PhD, of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in […]
Fight Cat Allergies With Newest Asthma Drug?
Subcutaneous immunotherapy treatment (SCIT) for reducing cat allergy symptoms appeared to be more effective and longer lasting with the help of tezepelumab (Tezspire), a monoclonal antibody recently approved for severe asthma, results from a phase I/II trial suggested. While the randomized CATNIP trial failed to meet its primary endpoint — a difference in total nasal […]
SABR for Oligometastatic Cancer Turns in ‘Acceptable’ Rates of Toxicity
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) treatment for oligometastatic or oligoprogressive cancer appeared to come with “acceptable” rates of toxic effects, according to SABR-5 study results. Among a population of 381 patients in the phase II trial, and with a median follow-up of 25 months, rates of grade 2 or greater toxic effects were observed in 18.6%, […]
Three Adjuvant Immunotherapy Trials Flop in Renal Cell Carcinoma
PARIS — While pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has been approved as an adjuvant treatment for patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma (RCC), three phase III studies presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual congress here failed to support the immune checkpoint inhibitor in this setting. In Part A of the CheckMate-914 trial, the median […]
Nearly 1 in 4 Young Adults Treated for Mental Health in 2021
The percentage of young U.S. adults receiving mental health treatment increased by nearly 5% from 2019 to 2021, according to National Health Interview Survey data. Overall, the proportion of adults receiving mental health treatment — defined as receiving counseling, therapy, taking a medication, or any combination of the three — increased from 19.2% in 2019 […]
Active Treatment for Extremely Preterm Babies on the Rise
Babies born extremely preterm were more likely to receive active treatment in recent years, but there were gaps in treatment among different racial and ethnic groups, according to a cross-sectional study. From 2014 to 2020, the proportion of extremely preterm infants who received active treatment rose nearly 4% each year (45.7% to 58.8%), increasing in […]
Ezra Miller Seeks Mental Health Treatment
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