India’s Trusted Pharmacy: Purchase Cancer Drugs Online in India No more running from one chemist store to another when in need of medicines! GDMeds.com brings to you an online medicine store, which can be accessed for all health needs. We are focused towards making healthcare accessible and affordable, especially for cancer drugs, such as chemotherapy,… Read More »GDMeds.com explore a new way to serve the people
Is eating eggs bad for your heart due to their high cholesterol content? You may make mistake, please think again. A large research has now shown that people who eat an egg every day could significantly reduce their risk of cardiovascular diseases. What an interesting thing. “The present study finds that there is an association between… Read More »New Research: An Egg A Day Keep Heart Attack Away
Author: Mark G. Kris, MD Hello. This is Mark Kris from Memorial Sloan Kettering. I am speaking to you today about three papers that appeared in JAMA Oncology on January 11, 2018, dealing with the adverse effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors. There was a commentary and two papers. My issue with these presentations is the lack of discussion of benefits… Read More »‘Oncology Done Right Is About Balance’: Weighing Immunotherapy Side Effects
Reporter: Megan Brook The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is reviewing the risk of dosing errors with medicines containing methotrexate. The review is based on “continued reports of overdose,” the agency announced today. Methotrexate is used to treat various inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis, psoriasis, and some cancers, such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Methotrexate can be taken… Read More »Risk of Methotrexate Dosing Errors Prompts EMA Review
Colorectal cancer refers to cancer that starts in the colon or rectum. It is the most common type of cancer that affects people over the age of 60 years. The three main symptoms of colorectal cancer are: Persistent blood in the stools – occurs for no obvious reasons and associated with a change in the… Read More »Colorectal cancer: What are the causes, symptoms and treatment
Reporter: Zosia Chustecka A new option for the treatment of ovarian cancer could soon be available in Europe: the PARP (poly [adenosine diphosphate-ribose] polymerase) inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca, Clovis). At its latest meeting the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended a conditional marketing authorization for rucaparib… Read More »Rucaparib for Ovarian Cancer OK’d for Approval in Europe
Author: Betty R. Ferrell, PhD, RN Tired of Treatment Paulo is a 49-year-old man with a recurrent brain tumor; he is now hospitalized after experiencing seizures. The tumor was diagnosed when Paulo was 44 years of age, and he has had extensive surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Three months ago, the brain tumor team advised Paulo… Read More »Clinicians as Communication Coaches – Preparing Patients for Difficult Conversations
Smoking is one of the main causes of preventable deaths throughout the world. When smoke enters the human body it affects nearly each and every organ leading to many life-threatening diseases. The poisons from the cigarette, which are basically tar and other chemicals when entering the bloodstream, are responsible for narrowing the arteries as well as… Read More »How smoking ruins your lungs
Author: David J. Kerr, CBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci Hi. I’m David Kerr, professor of cancer medicine from the University of Oxford. As you know, I’ve believed for some time that ploidy (the number of sets of chromosomes in a cell) measurements have been largely overlooked in terms of the relative importance of prognostic markers for… Read More »Overlooked Biomarker May Predict Cancer Immunotherapy Response
Author: Mary Hulihan, DrPH Hello. I am Dr Mary Hulihan, a health scientist in the Division of Blood Disorders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today I would like to talk about the indications for blood transfusion in patients with sickle cell disease, the complications associated with these transfusions, and how you can help… Read More »Sickle Cell Disease: When to Transfuse
Maurie Markman, MD Hello. I am Dr Maurie Markman from Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I wanted to briefly highlight the recently updated US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assessment on the use of laparoscopic power morcellators to treat uterine fibroids. This is clearly a complex and controversial topic, and one that… Read More »FDA Again Urges Caution and Advises Against Using Morcellators for Uterine Fibroids
Anya Romanowski, MS, RD The Role of Gender and Perception in Surgical Specialty Choice In the United States and abroad, there is a growing public reckoning over the routine discrimination and harassment that many women have faced in the workplace. The field of surgery has not been immune to these larger upheavals. Although surgery remains… Read More »Nevertheless, She Persisted: Women Face Unique Obstacles When Pursuing Surgery as a Specialty