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Ajai Chari, MD, discusses the evolving landscape and developing therapies within multiple myeloma.
When you're an oncologist and clinical trialist who finds yourself at the epicenter of a global health crisis, what do you do? Ajai Chari, MD, professor of medicine and the director of clinical research in the multiple myeloma (MM) program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, saw an opportunity to contribute from the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even as New ...

NOTE: ASJA NAMED THIS ARTICLE THE BEST TRADE ARTICLE IN ITS 2020 AWARDS CONTEST. It wasn't too many years years ago that the primary concerns related to pain management for patients with cancer revolved around whether they were getting adequate relief. Now, with the United States in the throes of an opioid epidemic, the use of these powerful and addictive pain relievers for patients with cancer is coming under unprecedented scrutiny.

INDIANAPOLIS — From the moment Daytheon Sturges, PhD, MPAS, PA-C, took the stage for his session at the American Academy of Physician Associates 2022 annual meeting, his hopes of transforming medicine became clear. Following the announcement that he had no official disclosures, Sturges made an unofficial disclosure of his own: "No medicines will be spoken about here, but I am trying to prescribe heart medicine because I want to change hearts today, if they have room to be changed."
What Sturg...

Last month, President Biden became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day, and 18 states have renamed Columbus Day to honor indigenous peoples.

But this progress has yet to produce tangible benefits for the Indian Health Service (IHS), a government agency that serves roughly 2.6 million American Indians and Alaska Natives from 574 tribes in 37 states.

INDIANAPOLIS ― With a focus on helping fellow practitioners improve their patient-care skills, members of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Commission of the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) presented a wide-ranging session on cross-cultural communication at the group's 2022 annual meeting.
Commission chair Robert Lee Wooten, PA-C, noted that cross-cultural communication is a process of creating and sharing meaning among people who have different cultural backgrounds. ...

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Stereotactic radiotherapy or surgery for treatment metastatic lesions failed to improve progression-free survival for patients with oligometastatic breast cancer, defined as 4 or fewer metastatic lesions.
NRG-BR002 will not continue accrual to answer the phase 3 overall survival research question based on these results.
High-quality, high-dose SBRT was safe with low rates of treatment-related adverse events, which were similar to the standard-of-care arm.
Clinicians should conside...

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SKYSCRAPER-02 found that the addition of the experimental agent tiragolumab to a regimen of atezolizumab plus chemotherapy did not increase survival among newly diagnosed patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
Survival data confirm atezolizumab plus chemotherapy as a standard of care for first-line treatment of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
The tiragolumab regimen was well-tolerated and no new safety signals emerged. Other investigations conti...

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The ADHERE prospective observational trial found that patient adherence was higher with enzalutamide than abiraterone, however enzalutamide is connected with forgetfulness among older adults.
Oncologists should consider cognitive screening for older adults with advanced prostate cancer before starting them on enzalutamide.
Findings from the ADHERE study to be presented during the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting by Pasquale Rescigno, MD, PhD, of the Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, i...

The American Red Cross made headlines in January when it declared the United States’ first-ever blood crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s omicron surge. But that announcement came as no surprise to the nation’s blood banking experts and laboratory professionals. “I started working as a medical technologist in the blood bank in 1991 and I have never seen the available donated blood plummet to these levels,” says Kimberly W. Sanford, MD, MASCP, MT(ASCP), Immediate Past President of ASCP, and Me...

Battlefield and emergency room surgeons must combine skill and speed to treat eye injuries. This takes practice with realistic model eyes. Thanks to advances in 3-D medical printing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, those models have graduated from plastic to biological materials.
“We’ve seen significant improvements with our 3-D printing that haven’t been equaled outside the military,” says Vincent Ho.

New artificial intelligence (AI) solutions from Leidos are helping the National Institutes of Health (NIH) vet the huge number of grant applications it receives every year.
Why you should know: NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. By choosing which research to fund, NIH effectively sets the nation's scientific agenda for years to come.
NIH-supported researchers have won or shared 99 Nobel Prizes in various fields including physics, c...

INDIANAPOLIS — Much of what we know about depression, anxiety, and suicide among healthcare professionals comes from investigations into the mental health of physicians and medical students. Now, new research is shedding light on how common these mental health conditions are among physician assistants (PAs) and PA students, Talia Sierra, PA-C, DMSc, told attendees in a session at the American Academy of Physician Associates 2022 annual meeting.
Sierra and co-presenter Heidi Posey, PA-C, both ...