• Repurposed Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Alzheimer's

  The addition of the antitumor medication masitinib to standard of care significantly slowed cognitive deterioration and improved overall functioning for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's

  2021-08-02

• WHO should lead on genome-editing policy, advisers say

  A human embryo shortly after fertilization, seen in a light micrograph.Credit: K. H. Kjeldsen/SPLA committee formed in the wake of a scandal has advised the World Health Organization (WHO) to assume a

  2021-07-05

• TRISCEND: Tricuspid Valve Replacement System Shows Early Promise

  The investigational transfemoral EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system (Edwards Lifesciences) significantly reduced severity of tricuspid regurgitation and improved quality of life at 30 days in t

  2021-06-23

• CRC Screening Guidelines: 45 Is the New 50, and 85 Is the New 75

  Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Find an accurate, completely noninvasive method for colorectal cancer screening and you'll probably win the Nobel P

  2021-06-13

• Commission Outlines Plan for Global Fight Against CVD in Women

  An expert panel convened by The Lancet calls for urgent action to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women and has outlined an ambitious agenda to accomplish that go

  2021-05-05

• Practice Halt: No Benefit in Cervical Cancer With Adjuvant Chemo

  One of the top presentations at the top cancer meeting this year has negative results — but this abstract is "very important," says Lori J. Pierce, MD, president of the American Society of C

  2021-05-03

• Once-Nightly Sodium Oxybate Agent Effective in Narcolepsy

  A novel, once-nightly formulation of sodium oxybate is safe and effective for treating both subjective and objective symptoms of narcolepsy, new research suggests.Top-line results from the phase 3 RES

  2021-04-21

• BP Lowering Useful in CV Risk Management Even at Normal Levels

  Lowering blood pressure with antihypertensive medication protects against future cardiovascular (CV) events even in people with normal or only mildly elevated blood pressure, a large meta-analysis con

  2021-04-05