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<乌鸦传媒>Financial Toxicity Among Single Mothers With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Diagnosis coupled with financial burden makes for a difficult situation, but help is out there

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<乌鸦传媒>On the Health Docket for the Supreme Court's 2024 Term

An alarming agenda with potentially grave consequences for public health

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<乌鸦传媒>Supreme Court to Weigh in on Abortion Pill Access

The nation's high court will consider the Fifth Circuit's ruling on mifepristone

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<乌鸦传媒>Benzodiazepine Use in Pregnancy Tied to Miscarriage Risk

Taiwanese study attempted to control for unmeasured confounders

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<乌鸦传媒>Do You Believe in These Medical Superstitions?

"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious" -- Michael Scott, "The Office"

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<乌鸦传媒>Gonorrhea, Then and Now

And when -- if ever -- will resistant super-bugs increase the use of condoms?

<乌鸦传媒>SABCS 2023 Highlights Open the Door for More Key Data in 2024

Virginia Kaklamani, MD, discusses this year's sessions of interest and looks ahead to next year

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<乌鸦传媒>MedPod Today: Long COVID and Stem Cells; An Unusual Pregnancy; New Cannabinoids

乌鸦传媒 reporters offer further insights on these recently covered topics

<乌鸦传媒>People Drop the Ball When It Comes to Safe Sex on New Year's Eve

Study finds large spike in emergency contraception sales the week after

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<乌鸦传媒>Antibiotic After Sex No Help in Preventing STIs in Women

Poor adherence may be to blame in this Kenyan population, researchers say

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<乌鸦传媒>Ozanimod Did Not Appear to Lead to More Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

However, avoiding pregnancy when on the IBD/MS drug still advised

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<乌鸦传媒>Maternal Flu Shot Protects Infants Against Severe Disease

Vaccine effectiveness was better when mom was vaccinated during third trimester

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<乌鸦传媒>Sharp Uptick in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Visits After ACA's Passage

Large database analysis shows room for more HIV testing, prevention

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<乌鸦传媒>Intervention Improves Outcomes For Women With Previous C-Section

Risk assessment, decision-making support reduced major perinatal and maternal morbidity

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<乌鸦传媒>Matthew Perry's Cause of Death; Woman's 'Abuse of a Corpse' Charge; HIV in Girls

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

<乌鸦传媒>Cannabis Exposure During Pregnancy; Tirzepatide Cessation and Weight Gain

Also in TTHealthWatch: newer vaccine technologies in adults

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<乌鸦传媒>Atezolizumab Plus Carboplatin Boosts Survival in Metastatic TNBC

But editorialists note that with recent advances, "it is hard to justify" use of combination

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<乌鸦传媒>A Medical Breakthrough for Postpartum Depression Within a Deeply Flawed System

Issues of equity and access persist for mental healthcare

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<乌鸦传媒>Trump's Cognitive Exam; CDC Issues 'Urgent' Vaccination Alert; Plan B Use Doubled

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>Baby Delivered From Rare Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy

Both the mother and neonate survived, making the case extra rare

<乌鸦传媒>Early Detection Is Key to Higher Cure Rates in Ovarian Cancer

"We are not aware of precancer stages for ovarian cancer"

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<乌鸦传媒>One in Five BRCA-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Able to Conceive

Disease-free survival comparable between patients who did and did not become pregnant

<乌鸦传媒>KEYNOTE-A18 Data Are 'Practice-Changing' for Cervical Cancer

Domenica Lorusso details the importance of modern radiotherapy in this regimen

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<乌鸦传媒>Metformin for Diabetes in Pregnancy: Maybe Not, Trial Says

New trial complicates findings of previous studies

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<乌鸦传媒>Very Early ART Can Result in Sustained HIV Suppression in Neonates

Newborns should be diagnosed "super early" and receive ART in maternity ward, experts say

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<乌鸦传媒>Giving Oropharyngeal Surfactant at Birth Is No Help to Preemies

Increased rates of pneumothorax emerged among newborns treated prophylactically

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<乌鸦传媒>Add-On Inavolisib Ups PFS in PIK3CA-Mutated Breast Cancer

Triplet therapy may surpass benefits of current "pretty active doublet" therapy, expert says

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<乌鸦传媒>Bispecific Antibody Combination Active in Metastatic HR+/HER2+ Breast Cancer

Two-thirds of patients progression free at 6 months with zanidatamab, palbociclib, fulvestrant

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<乌鸦传媒>Less-Frequent Surveillance Mammo Feasible in Older Breast Cancer Survivors

No difference for survival outcomes for annual versus around every 2 years

<乌鸦传媒>AI and Breast Cancer Screening; Cancer After Treatment for Sickle Cell

Also in TTHealthWatch: mail-in cervical cancer screening kits

<乌鸦传媒>Yes, Conversion Therapy Efforts Still Exist in Medical Practice

Leading health associations want to end this harmful approach

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<乌鸦传媒>Bilateral Mastectomy Not Tied to Better Survival in BRCA1-Positive Breast Cancer

However, the surgery did reduce risk of contralateral breast cancer

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<乌鸦传媒>Is Omitting Radiation Therapy in Low-Risk Breast Cancer a Good IDEA?

Local recurrence rate of 1% at 5 years in women ages 50-69 with genomically low-risk disease

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<乌鸦传媒>Kidney Disease in Pregnancy Often Overlooked for Care

These women had less nephrology care prior to end-stage disease onset

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<乌鸦传媒>Prenatal RSV Infection Linked to Fetal Inflammation, Poorer Growth

Study may give force to recommendations for maternal RSV vaccination

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<乌鸦传媒>Study Supports ADC as a New Option for Endocrine-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer

Datopotamab deruxtecan was safe and boosted quality of life

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<乌鸦传媒>Maintenance Pembrolizumab-Olaparib Fails to Boost Survival in TNBC

But better safety profile versus continued pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy

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<乌鸦传媒>Study 'Underscores' Value of Early Fertility Counseling for Breast Cancer Patients

Younger age, embryo/oocyte cryopreservation at diagnosis tied to an increased chance of pregnancy

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<乌鸦传媒>More Awareness Needed of Heart Events Tied to Breast Cancer Drugs, Experts Say

Myriad clinical manifestations of cardiotoxicity must be diagnosed, treated promptly

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<乌鸦传媒>Adding Immunotherapy to Neoadjuvant Chemo Boosts pCR in HR-Positive Breast Cancer

Promising early results with pembrolizumab, nivolumab but event-free survival data still pending

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