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American College of Sports Medicine, May 31-June 4

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The American College of Sports Medicine 63rd Annual Meeting and 7th World Congress on Exercise is Medicine The annual meeting of the American...
A novel antibody that targets claudin 18.2 is helping some patients with advanced gastric cancer live longer

ASCO: IMAB362 Can Lengthen Lives of Gastric Cancer Patients

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Patients with advanced disease lived longer when they received this targeted treatment
A new blood-based "liquid biopsy" could be a groundbreaking alternative to the traditional biopsy

ASCO: ‘Liquid Biopsy’ Shows Promise for Tumor Surveillance

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Guardant360 predicts cancer DNA mutations and could help tailor treatments to avoid drug resistance
Patients with advanced bladder cancer may benefit from the anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy atezolizumab (Tecentriq)

ASCO: Immunotherapy Beneficial in Advanced Bladder Cancer

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About a quarter of older patients deemed too frail for chemo responded to atezolizumab
A combination vaccine offered to mothers from 28 weeks of gestation may offer protection for infants born prematurely

Vaccination in Pregnancy May Offer Protection for Preemies

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Infants born to vaccinated mothers have higher antibody concentrations of vaccine antigens
The ventricular ectopic QRS interval can identify post-myocardial infarction patients with prior serious ventricular arrhythmia

Ventricular Ectopic QRS Interval May Be Useful Post-MI Marker

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VEQSI max >198 ms identifies post-MI patients with prior life threatening events
Dietary calcium intake seems to have a U-shaped correlation with fracture risk in men and possibly in women

U-Shaped Pattern for Dietary Calcium Intake, Fracture Risk

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Pattern of dietary calcium with fracture risk is U-shaped for older men and possibly for older women
For patients with rectal carcinoma

125I Brachytherapy Ups Anastomotic Leakage in Rectal CA

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Intraoperative implantation increases risk of AL, fecal incontinence, urinary dysfunction
Operative hysteroscopy does not reduce recurrent bleeding in women with postmenopausal bleeding

Operative Hysteroscopy Doesn’t Cut Postmenopausal Bleeding

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No significant reduction in recurrent bleeding for women with postmenopausal bleeding
Few U.S. adults engage in all five health-related behaviors recommended for chronic disease prevention

Few Engage in Five Behaviors for Preventing Chronic Disease

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Only 6.3% of U.S. adults report engaging in all five behaviors; geographic variation seen in clustering