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30 days in, UHC offers little guidance on advance notification
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
While UnitedHealthcare has provided some information about how advanced notification will work, many unanswered questions remain.
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Keeping physician stress in check
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
Physician stress is in part due to systemic institutional challenges, but coping strategies can help.
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Promising treatment option for incurable lung cancer described as ‘significant’
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
Investigators suggest this combo should be standard therapy for NSCLC going forward.
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Should all women be routinely screened for lung cancer?
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
Study suggests lung cancer screening guidelines should be reassessed to include all women, especially breast cancer survivors.
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Severe COVID two times higher for cancer patients
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
Cancer patients are at high risk of developing COVID-19 with severe outcomes, but the magnitude of the risk hasn...
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Vitamin D status may play a pivotal role in colon cancer prevention
- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
- Amy Reyes
Observational studies, plus laboratory and mouse model studies, point to a higher risk of colorectal cancer when vitamin D levels are low....
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Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for resectable head and neck cancer holds therapeutic benefit
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 10 clinical trials of patients with resectable head and neck cancer...
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Physicians question the future of TNF inhibitors for psoriasis, PsA
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
Two dermatologists and two rheumatologists debate the merits of using IL-17 and IL-23 inhibitors ahead of TNF inhibitors for the treatment of...
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy still weighs heavy for some rheumatic disease patients
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
ACR COVID-19 vaccine task force chair Dr. Jeffrey Curtis goes over the latest evidence about COVID-19 vaccination in patients with rheumatic and...
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U.S. study find no association with ‘COVID toes’ and COVID-19
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- Amy Reyes
A review of chilblain cases from six Bay Area counties in Northern California found a weak correlation, confirming 2% of chilblain cases as...
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Rituximab superior to mycophenolate mofetil in pemphigus vulgaris study
- Author:
- Amy Reyes
“The results of this trial showed that rituximab was superior to mycophenolate mofetil in producing sustained complete remission over 52 weeks.”...