Darcy Lewis

An experimental antibody helped people recover body mass lost due to cancer and treatment.
March 13, 2025
CACHEXIA IS A COMMON AND CONCERNING PROBLEM facing people with advanced cancer. This poorly understood condition—marked by substantial and unintentional loss of body mass—causes people to lose fat, muscle and bone and can be severely debilitating.

Cognitive impairment is a recognized sequela of the demyelinating disorder multiple sclerosis (MS). Various studies have attempted to quantify the percentage of patients with cognitive impairment in each MS phenotype. In general, half of all people with MS will experience cognitive symptoms due to the disease, and cognitive decline is more common in the progressive phenotypes.

CHICAGO — Endocrinologists should consider ways to refine their in-clinic eye exams for patients with thyroid eye disease, including testing for color vision, visual acuity, pupillary reaction, and resistance to retropulsion and Hertel exophthalmometry, according to a presentation at the American Thyroid Association (ATA) 2024 Meeting.
The lack of a Hertel exophthalmometer may be the biggest obstacle to optimal endocrine-based eye care, said endocrinologist Chrysoula Dosiou, MD, of Stanford...

For many of us, family planning includes a host of questions, from when to have a family to how many children to have. For some, that list of questions also includes: Are there health limitations that might prevent us from having a family—and if so what help is available to help us achieve our goal? And for those who face life-changing health events, the need to answer such questions may come sooner rather than later—if they want to preserve the option of having biological children in the future.

When you’re an expert in medical CT imaging, two things are bound to happen, says Peter Noël, PhD, associate professor of Radiology and director of CT Research at the Perelman School of Medicine. One: You develop an insatiable curiosity about the inner workings of all kinds of objects, including those unrelated to your research. And two: Both colleagues and complete strangers will ask for your help in imaging a wide variety of unexpected items.

Robotic-assisted navigation (RAN) and augmented reality (AR) showed superior accuracy for pedicle screw placement when compared to conventional freehand techniques during surgeries to treat degenerative spine conditions, according to the findings of a prospective clinical and radiographic analysis performed at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS).

Have your health care providers asked if you need help with necessities like transportation or housing? Organizations that set national quality standards for cancer care say they should.
Research has increasingly documented the impact of social needs on health and cancer outcomes. That’s why the Joint Commission, which provides quality and safety accreditation, includes asking patients about their health-related social needs in its standards.

CHICAGO — Endocrinologists may be shifting toward greater use of antithyroid drugs (ATDs) over radioactive iodine (RAI) for initial treatment of Graves’ disease. Severe thyrotoxicosis remains rare but is challenging to treat. And investigational agents like batoclimab and K1-70 hold promise for the future of hyperthyroidism management. These are a few takeaways from a clinical session at the American Thyroid Association (ATA) 2024 Meeting.

Since 2018, the standard of care for people with stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that cannot be treated with surgery has been to receive chemotherapy and radiation, followed by one year of the immunotherapy drug Imfinzi (durvalumab). However, several studies have indicated immunotherapy is less effective for patients with an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation, which occurs in up to one-third of NSCLC cases.

Many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) expect to cope with physical challenges like problems with walking or seeing, but the disease's central nervous system damage often causes mental health symptoms, too.

Hormones, which are chemicals in your body, act like messengers to help control your cells and organs. And endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the way hormones work.
Some endocrine disruptors occur naturally and others are made by humans. The Endocrine Society estimates that there are nearly 85,000 human-made chemicals in the world — and 1,000 or more of them may be endocrine disruptors.

Cemented implant fixation is still the predominant approach among knee replacement surgeons, but the adoption of cementless knees is gaining ground. The technique is currently used in about 20% of primary total knee replacements, according to the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR), and that rate is expected to increase over the next decade.

People who have progressive, gradual onset of neurologic symptoms over time have primary progressive (PP) MS. In PPMS, the symptoms typically worsen steadily over time and physical and/or cognitive disability accumulates. This represents about 10-15% of people with MS. Here's what you need to know.