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FB Live: Immunity to COVID-19Posted on Tuesday August 04, 2020
(MedPage Today) -- Topic: MedPage Today speaks with Warner Greene, MD, PhD, senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, and director of the Center for HIV Cure Research there. We will discuss what is known about the immunology...
Cachexia Common in LupusPosted on Tuesday August 04, 2020
(MedPage Today) -- Cachexia is an underappreciated complication of systemic lupus erythematosus, researchers reported. A total of 56.3% of patients developed the involuntary weight loss accompanied by loss of homeostatic control of protein and...
No Mood Benefit for Vitamin D in TrialPosted on Tuesday August 04, 2020
(MedPage Today) -- Vitamin D supplementation was not associated with a reduced risk of depression or any secondary outcomes involving mood among middle-age and older adults, a randomized controlled trial found. Among 18,353 patients age 50 and...
Jardiance Wins for HFrEF, Farxiga for CKD; COVID Carditis LingersPosted on Tuesday August 04, 2020
(MedPage Today) -- Empagliflozin (Jardiance) reduced the composite of CV death or heart failure hospitalization in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, irrespective of diabetes status, in topline results from the EMPEROR-Reduced...
Adding Pevonedistat to Azacitidine Shows Promise in MDS, AMLPosted on Tuesday August 04, 2020
(MedPage Today) -- In a phase II trial presented at the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology virtual annual meeting, adding pevonedistat to azacitidine showed a trend toward increased event-free survival and numerically better overall survival...
