Breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer screening was reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to pre-COVID time periods.
1. All cancer types had the greatest decrease in screening during the early part of the pandemic....
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Children’s physical activity significantly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic
1. A systematic review and meta-analysis including more than 14,000 children showed significantly...
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Discrepancies exist between measured and estimated glomerular filtration rate
1. There are significant differences between measured and estimated glomerular filtration rate...
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LCAR-B38M CAR-T cell therapy promising at 4-year follow-up for treatment of refractory multiple myeloma
1. At a 4-year follow-up for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) patients treated with...
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Thrombectomy alone is inferior to thrombectomy plus alteplase for acute ischemic stroke
1. Fewer patients in the thrombectomy group achieved an MRS score of 0-2 at 90 days compared to...
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Case management program for patient social needs reduces future healthcare use
1. Patients enrolled in the CommunityConnect case management program had reduced emergency...
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Bridging therapy is superior to direct thrombectomy within 4.5 hours of acute ischemic stroke
1. Fewer patients in the direct thrombectomy achieved functional independence at 90 days compared...
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Plasma p-tau217 is an accurate plasma biomarker of pathologic cerebral changes in patients with Down Syndrome
1. Plasma biomarkers, including p-tau217, were found to accurately detect cerebral changes...
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High dose dexamethasone does not improve survival in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19
1. High dose dexamethasone was nonsuperior in regards to 60-day survival outcomes as compared with...
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Comparisons of invasive versus conservative management in chronic kidney disease in the ISCHEMIA-CKD trials
1. Following invasive or conservative management of chronic coronary disease, patients with...
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Community-based and health-care based smoking cessation intervention models have similar efficacy
1. There was no significant difference in smoking cessation between healthcare-based and...
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Relugolix combination therapy is efficacious for endometriosis-associated pain
1. Relugolix combination therapy significantly reduced endometriosis-associated dysmenorrhea and...
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APOEε4 genotype may increase risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy following repetitive head impact
1. A cross sectional study of postmortem brain specimens from individuals with a history of...
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Health system-based care associated with better treatment use and high rates of tobacco abstinence at 3 months post-discharge in hospitalized smokers
1. In this randomized controlled trial of 1409 hospitalized patients who smoke, the...
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FOLFOX combined with nivolumab and trastuzumab in ERBB2-positive esophagogastric adenocarcinoma is an emerging therapy option
1. Overall survival rate at 12 months for the FOLFOX arm and ipilimumab arm was 70% and 57%,...
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Adding atezolizumab to standard of care treatment for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive early breast cancer does not improve pathologic response outcomes
1. The pathologic response rate was similar in the atezolizumab treatment group as compared to...
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Sickle cell trait associated with preexisting kidney comorbidities and increased COVID-19 mortality
1. Sickle cell trait was associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and various preexisting...
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Cognitive behavioral therapy efficacious for treatment of comorbid posttraumatic headache and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among US veterans
1. Among US military veterans with posttraumatic headache and comorbid posttraumatic stress...
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Early exposure to allergenic foods may reduce incidence of long-term food allergy
1. Prevalence of food allergy at 36 months was greatest in the skin intervention group and lowest...
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Lisocabtagene maraleucel improves survival for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma
1. Median event-free survival in the liso-cel group was significantly greater than in the...
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