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<乌鸦传媒>Smartphone App Decreased Distracted Driving and Other Noteworthy Studies This Week

This piece is devoted to four exceptional papers in JAMA Network Open

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<乌鸦传媒>Fecal Bacteria at U.S. Beaches; America's Hoarding Problem; Nasal COVID Vax Trial

Health news and commentary gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>Study Supports More Inclusive Clinical Trials With Broader Eligibility Criteria

No difference in adverse events, clinical benefit, OS for patients with or without waivers

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<乌鸦传媒>Is Cholesterol Denialism Pseudoscience or Appropriate Medical Care?

Calling an end to debate rarely serves the advancement of knowledge

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<乌鸦传媒>Retract Now: Negating Flawed Research Must Be Quicker

Incentives and streamlined processes can prevent the spread of incorrect science

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<乌鸦传媒>Community-Based Interventions for Opioid Overdoses Fail to Reduce Deaths in Trial

"Game plan" established to get evidence-based practices into the real world, researcher says

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<乌鸦传媒>New Tricuspid Interventions Launched into 'Broken' System

Having the technology reach the right patients is a major challenge in the real world

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<乌鸦传媒>Can Mitral Valve Innovators Dig Themselves Out of a Rut?

Current transcatheter mitral valve replacement devices a poor match for clinical need

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<乌鸦传媒>Paxlovid Trial Flops for COVID Pneumonia

Small study found no decrease in mortality among inpatients in three countries

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<乌鸦传媒>Docetaxel Tied to Less Taxane Neuropathy in Black Breast Cancer Patients

Dose-limiting toxicity has been linked with worse outcomes specifically in this population

<乌鸦传媒>GLP-1 Agonists in Adolescents and Young Adults; Benefits of Cancer Drug Trials

Also in TTHealthWatch: early diagnosis and treatment of COPD and asthma

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<乌鸦传媒>Cancer Clinical Trial Participation May Not Actually Improve Survival, Study Says

Meta-analysis suggests survival benefits disappeared after accounting for biases, confounders

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<乌鸦传媒>More Patients Participate in Cancer Treatment Trials Than Previously Estimated

Study calculates rate at 7.1%, higher than historical estimate of less than 5%

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<乌鸦传媒>Lack of Clinical Trial Availability Tied to Worse Prostate Cancer Mortality

"It's a trend we really don't want to see," researcher says

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<乌鸦传媒>Closing Gender-Based Disease Disparities Starts in the Lab

Women must have a seat at the table in deciding what type of research to pursue

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<乌鸦传媒>FDA Warning Letters Detail Controversy at Psychiatric Institute

Two letters - one to a psychiatrist - follow reports of a trial participant's suicide

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<乌鸦传媒>Trump Avoids Talk of Father's Alzheimer鈥檚; Teens Smell Like Goats; AI Drugs a Bust?

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

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<乌鸦传媒>Patients and Doctors Push Back Against the Harsh Side Effects of Cancer Drugs

"If the patients are not taking the drug, then it's not going to work"

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<乌鸦传媒>As Investors Pile Into Psychedelics, Idealism Gives Way to Pharma Economics

Challenges abound for the burgeoning sector

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<乌鸦传媒>The Healthcare Landscape Is Changing. Our Regulatory Practices Should Too.

Closer collaboration between FDA and CMS is the need of the hour

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<乌鸦传媒>Physicians Don't Always Understand the FDA Approval Process, Survey Finds

Most preferred two or more randomized trials as evidence required for approval

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<乌鸦传媒>IG Live January 17: From Long COVID Symptoms to Solutions

Leading long COVID researcher Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, discusses new research

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<乌鸦传媒>Benefits of Myeloma Regimens in the Real World Fall Well Short of Trials

Survival 75% worse compared with outcomes seen in registrational studies

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<乌鸦传媒>No Laughing Matter: Women's Health Is Not a 'Women's Issue'

It's about time the U.S. focused on women's health research

<乌鸦传媒>Communicating Uncertainty About Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval

An education gap exists about "the possibility that these drugs might not work," says expert

<乌鸦传媒>Competing Incentives of the FDA's Accelerated Drug Approval

Experts weigh drug availability against possible suboptimal outcomes

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<乌鸦传媒>ChatGPT Created a Fake Dataset With Skewed Results

Findings raise concerns about the ease of generating false medical evidence

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<乌鸦传媒>What if Trial Participants Knew Their Contributions Were for Naught?

A call for enforcing trial reporting requirements

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<乌鸦传媒>IG Live October 23: Life in the Fast Lane With FDA's Accelerated Approvals

Experts share their perspectives on the increasingly controversial FDA pathway

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<乌鸦传媒>Modern Medicine Forgot to Confirm It Works for Women, Too

An excerpt from Cat Bohannon's new book, Eve

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<乌鸦传媒>After-the-Fact Informed Consent for a Clinical Trial? It Can Work in Some Situations

Sometimes it's not practical to perform the study any other way

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<乌鸦传媒>Sotorasib's Confirmatory Data in NSCLC Unreliable, Says FDA Panel

But聽agency doesn't plan to immediately push for KRAS inhibitor's withdrawal

FDA ADCOMM sotorasib (Lumakras) over a chest x-ray image of a patient with lung cancer.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Staff Highly Skeptical of Confirmatory Data on KRAS Inhibitor in NSCLC

Reviewers see potentially tiny PFS benefit with sotorasib, raise concerns over "systemic bias"

FDA APPROVED gepirone hydrochloride extended-release (Exxua) over a photo of a woman covering her face with her hands.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Relents, Approves Novel Antidepressant After Many Rejections

Gepirone extended-release approved after nearly 2 decades of trying

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<乌鸦传媒>FDA Reviewers Have Concerns About Artificial Womb Trials in Humans

The Pediatric Advisory Committee will discuss if data support a safe first-in-human trial

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<乌鸦传媒>Long COVID Persists as a Mass Disabling Event

We must do more to show we care

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<乌鸦传媒>It's High Time for Gender-Inclusive Clinical Research

Health decisions must account for all types of bodies and identities

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<乌鸦传媒>Xeljanz Edges Humira Just a Bit for Real-World RA Patients, Study Suggests

Australian researchers perform "target trial emulation" to compare popular drugs

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<乌鸦传媒>Stanford Study of Paxlovid for Long COVID Stopped Early

Enrollment was halted earlier than planned after interim analysis

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<乌鸦传媒>At $20K, Stem Cell Eye Injections May Also Cost Patients Their Sight

Patients claim vision got worse after "clinical trial" at Florida stem cell clinic

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