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Financial toxicity is a clinically relevant outcome for patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer

Financial Toxicity Is a Relevant Cancer Outcome Measure

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Health-related quality of life correlated with financial toxicity in cancer patients
For patients with advanced retinoblastoma

Topotecan-Based Therapy Beneficial for Retinoblastoma

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Findings show globe salvage with vision for topotecan plus vincristine, carboplatin, focal therapy
For patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction with an exercise-induced increase in the ratio between early mitral inflow velocity and mitral annular early diastolic velocity

Spironolactone Benefits Exercise Tolerance in HFpEF

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Improvements in exercise capacity, anaerobic threshold, and oxygen uptake efficiency
For U.S. adults

Considerable Economic Burden for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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Economic burden estimated at about $9 billion in 2015 for adults ages 19 years and older
Chronic coinfection with hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus is associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among patients with HIV receiving antiretroviral treatment

HBV, HCV Coinfection Ups Non-Hodgkin Risk in ART-Treated HIV

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Increased risk for NHL for HIV-infected patients receiving ART with chronic coinfection with HBV, HCV
Herbal and dietary supplement-induced liver injury accounts for 20 percent of cases of hepatotoxicity in the United States

Herbal, Dietary Supplements Cause One-Fifth of Hepatotoxicity

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Major implicated agents include anabolic steroids, green tea, multi-ingredient nutritional supplements
Statins can interact with other drugs prescribed for cardiovascular disease

AHA Urges Awareness of Statin Interaction With Other CV Meds

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Lovastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin should not be used with gemfibrozil
Some patients with atrial fibrillation who have implanted pacemakers or defibrillators may not always need anticoagulation

Researchers Say Not All A-Fib Patients Need Anticoagulation

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If episodes of atrial fibrillation are brief, risk of stroke is low
For patients with type 2 diabetes

Postprandial Walk Beneficial in Type 2 Diabetes

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Second study supports at least 150 minutes of exercise a week for reducing T2DM risk
For women with a prior preterm birth

Early Births Down With 17α-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate

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Reduction in delivery at less than 24 weeks of gestation compared with cerclage alone