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American Society of Hematology, Dec. 3-6

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The 58th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting & Exposition The annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology was held from Dec....
Regularly drinking even small amounts of alcohol may increase the risk of atrial fibrillation

Even Moderate, Regular Alcohol Consumption Could Cause A-Fib

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Risk of atrial fibrillation up by 8 percent for each daily alcoholic drink
A vaccine made from patient-derived acute myeloid leukemia cells and dendritic cells can dramatically increase the chance of long-term survival against acute myeloid leukemia

Personalized Vaccine Effective Against Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Made by combining immune cells, cancer cells, it's kept some patients in remission for nearly five years
Orthostatic heart rate recovery predicts mortality in adults aged 50 and older

Heart Rate Recovery Could Predict Mortality in Older Adults

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In study, people with slower heart rate recovery had higher odds of dying within four years
Cardiac arrest patients who receive epinephrine within five minutes are more likely to survive than those who don't receive the drug within that time frame

Timely Epinephrine Increases Cardiac Arrest Survival

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Dose within five minutes of cardiac arrest increases chances by 20 percent
An experimental drug for infants with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 appears to be effective

Nusinersen Shows Promise in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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Study results are promising but do not represent a cure
A single dose of an experimental gene therapy may benefit patients with hemophilia B

ASH: Single Dose of Gene Therapy Effective in Hemophilia B

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Small, preliminary trial suggests it may free hemophilia B patients from transfusions
Osimertinib is more effective than platinum-pemetrexed therapy in patients with T790M-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed during first-line epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment

Osimertinib Bests Platinum-Pemetrexed in T790M+ NSCLC

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Significantly longer duration of progression-free survival with osimertinib vs platinum-pemetrexed
About 5 percent of patients for whom whole-exome sequencing is informative have multiple molecular diagnoses

Frequency of Multiple Molecular Diagnoses About 5 Percent

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Phenotypic similarity score lower for patients with phenotype resulting from two distinct disorders
For older adults without dementia

Higher NT-proBNP Tied to Lower Brain Volume in Older Adults

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Higher NT-proBNP levels linked to volumetric and microstructural markers of subclinical brain damage