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To curb unnecessary antibiotic use, clinicians should educate patients on the potential harms of its use on individuals rather than society or antibiotic resistance, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Previous research has shown that physicians are up to 10 times more likely to prescribe an antibiotic if they believe the patient is expecting one, Ben Miller, BS, and an MD candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote. U...

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A printable home vision test accurately measured visual acuity in ophthalmology outpatients and displayed high test-retest repeatability in a diagnostic study. We are excited to be developing a simple test that clinicians can use to estimate the level of vision in patients who cant attend in-person appointments, which has the potential to be a great addition to the telephone and online appointments we provide at Moorfields, and we are encouraged by our results, study co-author Michael D. Crossla...

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Neetu Gupta, PhD, associate professor at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, discussed data comparing cytokine release syndrome in CAR T-therapy to COVID-19 at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition. This study suggests that the lessons that you learn from CAR-T associated cytokine release syndrome, which is what we are performing here, may actually be applied toward management of cytokine release syndrome resulting from COVID-19, Gupta told Healio. ...

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A noninvasive multimodal blood test demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of colorectal advanced neoplasia, according to prospective study results presented at Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. These findings suggest the blood test, FirstSight (CellMax Life), can be used to stratify individuals for screening or for post-polypectomy surveillance colonoscopy, according to the researchers. Colonoscopic polypectomy is the primary reason for declining colorectal cancer inc...

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Neetu Gupta, PhD, associate professor at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, discussed exciting CAR-T presentations featured at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, including new targets for lymphoid malignancies and CAR modifications to improve safety. Im also looking forward to learning about biomarkers of response and toxicity. We have used metabolomics, but Im sure people are using other types of clinical biochemical and molecular omics type studies, Gupta told Healio. ...

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More than half of health care workers involved in COVID-19 care may be at risk for one or more mental health problems, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research. What health care workers are experiencing is akin to domestic combat, Andrew J. Smith, PhD, director of the University of Utah Health Occupational Trauma Program at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, said in a press release. Although the majority of health care professionals and emergency responders aren...

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Recruitment for the convalescent plasma arm of the RECOVERY trial was closed after an independent board determined there was no evidence the treatment benefited patients with COVID-19, according to the trials chief investigators. Following a meeting on Thursday, the data monitoring committee (DMC) recommended closing recruitment to the randomized clinical trial that was testing a range of potential treatments for COVID-19 after it found there was no convincing evidence that recruiting additional...

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