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Patient Perspective: Jamie Troil Goldfarb shares her clinical trial experience [video]

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Jamie received a diagnosis of stage IV melanoma in 2011, only 11 weeks after giving birth to her child. Individuals with Jamie’s specific diagnosis are given a 14% 5-year survival rate — but through participating in an immunotherapy clinical trial, Jamie is living without evidence of the disease.

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Kids With Congenital Heart Disease Face Higher Odds of Mental Health Issues

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These children often miss school and social activities due to doctors’ visits or health restrictions. Of those, 1,164 had congenital heart disease. The defects range from mild to severe and sometimes require immediate or multiple surgeries.

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‘Repeat After Me’ for Better Diabetes Care

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It’s a simple concept: After a health care provider explains various details on treatment plans, medications and how to manage the disease at home, they then ask the patient to repeat back the information. Data came from the 2011-2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey administered by the U.S. Another 88 million have prediabetes.

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Antibiotic Therapy Before Age 2 May Affect Child Health

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31, 2011, to examine the impact of antibiotic exposure in the first two years of life. Zaira Aversa, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues conducted a population-based cohort study involving children born in Olmsted County, Minnesota, between Jan. 1, 2003, and Dec. Abstract/Full Text. © 2020 HealthDay.

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Genomics/Biobanks/Cohort Studies

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The Sabatini Lab focuses on the development and regulation of synapses in the brain and the relationship of these processes to behavior and disease. His central interests have been in the study of adult chronic disease and the development of their behavioral risk factors with a focus on addictions and metabolic conditions.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

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This new body of data includes environmental exposure studies and clinical trials from Merck and Johnson and Johnson collected between 2011 and 2018. This will involve resources for providers like doctors and pharmacists that directly interact with patients, along with a variety of media formats.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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“Cumulatively the deadliest of the human infectious diseases,” malaria has been documented throughout recorded history. In this light, scouring old Chinese remedies for new treatments for a disease specifically troublesome during war was entirely intuitive for Chinese biomedical scientists like Tu Youyou in the mid-20th century.

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