Add-on Pembrolizumab Tied to Good QoL in Women With Advanced Cervical Cancer
PHOENIX — The addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab (Avastin), in women with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer was linked with better quality of life (QoL), a researcher reported. Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) from the KEYNOTE-826 trial showed that changes from baseline in QLQ-C30 global health status (GHS)/QoL scores — a […]
Surveillance testing shown to reduce community COVID-19 spread
Covid-19 is often asymptomatic and can lead infected individuals to spread the disease without knowing it. Yet, regular surveillance testing of a community can catch these cases and prevent outbreaks. In early 2020, Georgia Tech researchers designed a saliva-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and encouraged community members to test weekly to track the health […]
Children with asymptomatic malaria a ‘hidden risk’ to disease control efforts: Study in Uganda highlights potential for school-aged children to be targeted for malaria control interventions
The role of people infected with malaria without showing symptoms presents a hidden risk to efforts to control the disease after they were found to be responsible for most infections in mosquitoes, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Researchers from the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC), London School of Hygiene & […]
Can Anxiety Make You Feel Feverish? Anxiety Symptoms
In some cases, anxiety can make you feel feverish without actually increasing your body temperature. In other cases, it can cause a recordable fever In some cases, anxiety can make you feel feverish without actually increasing your body temperature. In other cases, it can cause a recordable fever. Fever is defined as a body temperature […]
6 Rude Comments Relatives Make At The Holidays (And How To Respond)
No visit home for the holidays is complete without at least a few annoying or insensitive comments from your extended family. Often, your family means well when they inquire — yet again! — about your relationship status, your body, your baby plans or what is (or isn’t) on your plate or in your glass. Or […]
Broadband Key to Expanding Telehealth’s Pandemic Gains, Say Experts
Telehealth can’t succeed without expanding access to affordable broadband internet, witnesses told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Thursday. But extending the regulatory flexibilities around this access granted under the public health emergency, which are slated to expire when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, is also critical, they said, stressing that the benefits […]
Practice-Changing Study in Advanced Cervical Cancer
Adding pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab (Avastin) significantly slowed progression of metastatic cervical cancer and improved overall survival (OS), investigators in a randomized trial concluded. Median progression-free survival (PFS) improved from 8.2 months with chemotherapy plus or minus bevacizumab (Avastin) to 10.4 months with the addition of the PD-1 inhibitor. Comparison of […]
In the absence of genetic variation, asexual invasive species find new methods of adapting to their environment
Without the benefits of evolutionary genetic variation that accompany meiotic reproduction, how does an asexual invasive species adapt over time to a new environment to survive? In all-female weevil species that produce only female offspring from unfertilized eggs, the insects’ survival techniques have led to the surprising discovery that these creatures can pass down gene […]