Author: Janine Anthes

First agency-sanctioned treatment for adults with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome

Expanded approval also granted to mutation assay used to detect FLT3 mutation in AML patients

Intake of at least 1 g/kg of adjusted body weight per day linked to better disability trajectories

Rural Zuni Indians with kidney disease had improved activation in their own health and health care

Lower perception of scholastic, social, athletic competence could affect reading, motor skills

Breastfeeding lowers risk in those large for gestational age, but only without maternal diabetes

Early screening may benefit those with dense breasts, personal/family history of breast cancer

Findings based on subsequent memory loss 20 years after food assessment

On mobile platform, highest accuracy seen with sparse five-feature logistic regression classifier

Significant reduction in attack rate compared with placebo seen for three dose regimens of lanadelumab

Women have less subclinical atherosclerosis during midlife with higher healthy lifestyle score

New concern added to list of the agency’s warnings about the herbal supplement

For veterans, social interaction in person, not on Facebook, tied to lower risk for depression, PTSD

Patients receiving GAD gene therapy develop unique treatment-dependent polysynaptic brain circuit

But readmission rates similar for top-ranked, nonranked hospitals for acute MI and CABG

Truxima approved to treat adults with CD20-positive, B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Individuals in top quartile of vitamin D levels have significantly higher CRF than those in lowest quartile

High users of screens more likely to have history of depression, anxiety, mental health tx

Between 2007 and 2016, pregnancy-associated mortality related to opioids more than doubled