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Patient Gifts Cakes Every Year to Doctor Who Saved His Life Patient Gifts Cakes Every Year to Doctor Who Saved His Life
For the past 15 years, a Rhode Island man has delivered cakes with messages of appreciation to the cardiovascular surgeon who operated on him, thanking him for another year of life.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

New Opdivo/Yervoy Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Begins Soon
A novel clinical trial involving the immunotherapy combination of Opdivo and Yervoy will open soon in Chicago. The goal is to study the drugs’ efficacy when added to surgery for patients with peritoneal mesothelioma cancer. The single-center, phase II clinical trial follows a recent report detailing the impressive three-year effectiveness of the drug combination when used for unresectable pleural mesothelioma. Bristol Myers Squibb manufactures Opdivo and Yervoy, known generically as nivolumab and ipilimumab. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the combination for pleural mesothelioma in 2020, making it t...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - October 7, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

Virtual Symposium to Focus on Mesothelioma Treatment Advances
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of South Florida will host its free virtual First Miami International Mesothelioma Symposium on November 6, 2021. The Mesothelioma Program at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has grown to become one of America’s leaders in this specialized field, attracting a wide range of expertise for its upcoming virtual symposium. “Mesothelioma is such a rare disease that we really have to bring in experts from around the world to get a true picture of what’s coming next. And I think we’ve done that with our program,” medical oncologist Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez, Symposium c...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - October 5, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy Edel Source Type: news

Science Saturday: A robotic GPS for targeting, delivering regenerative biotherapies
A remote-controlled bronchoscope that acts like a GPS system hunts down hard-to-find lung masses and accurately biopsies them, according to a Mayo Clinic collaborative study. This multisite research, which is published in Annals of Thoracic Surgery, lays the foundation for precisely finding early-stage cancer and targeting it with regenerative biotherapeutics needed to stimulate healing. Artificial intelligence gleaned from CT scans d irects the robotic fiber optic cable, providing a GPS-like pathway to tiny nodules, or masses, that manual bronchoscopes… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - October 2, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Study Shows Access to Care Often Difficult for Mesothelioma Patients
When it comes to malignant pleural mesothelioma, not everyone is treated equally. A disparity in access to care makes the difference in mesothelioma treatment quite dramatic, according to the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Patients without access to expert multidisciplinary care at high-volume, academic facilities are being inappropriately undertreated for their disease,” medical oncologist Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez told The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com. “The access is not adequate as it should be for everyone.” Rodriguez led a recent study at University of Miami that lo...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 28, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chris Elkins Source Type: news

New Phase 3 Data Suggest Positive Effect and Show Similar Safety with XARELTO ® (rivaroxaban) Compared to Aspirin in Pediatric Fontan Procedure Patients at Risk for Blood Clots and Blood Clot-Related Events
RARITAN, NJ, September 27, 2021 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today new data from the Phase 3 UNIVERSE study showing treatment with XARELTO® (rivaroxaban) in an oral suspension formulation, compared to treatment with aspirin, was associated with numerically fewer blood clots and clinical events strongly associated with blood clots in pediatric patients (aged 2-8 years) who have undergone the Fontan procedure. [1] These findings, which were published this month in the Journal of the American Heart Association and included in a recent New Drug Application submitted to the U.S. F...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - September 27, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news

Cleveland Clinic breaks ground on new hospital
The hospital will initially focus on digestive diseases, general surgery, urology, cardiovascular care, orthopedics, and pulmonary care. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Kevin Smith Source Type: news

Assessment of cases of traumatic chest injuries reported to general surgery department - Sonkar SN, Gupta SK.
BACKGROUND: Traumatic injuries are the leading cause of death worldwide. Head and spinal cord injury is the common site of injury followed by thoracic trauma. The present study evaluated various traumatic chest injuries among patients reported to general s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Bypass Is Best Bariatric Surgery to Reduce Cardiovascular Events Bypass Is Best Bariatric Surgery to Reduce Cardiovascular Events
Bariatric surgery is associated with a reduction in risk of major adverse cardiac events, and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is linked to a greater reduction than sleeve gastrectomy.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - September 16, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news

2021 ADAO Asbestos Awareness Conference Runs Sept. 17-18
The 16th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference takes place Sept. 17-18, featuring 40 speakers from seven countries plus the first-ever Art, Advocacy and Shared Stories film festival. This virtual event is open to all free of charge, requiring only an online registration. It is designed to educate the public about the dangers of asbestos, intensify efforts to ban asbestos, and aid in research to improve treatment for asbestos diseases, including mesothelioma cancer. Sponsoring the event is the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, an independent nonprofit regarded as the world’s leadin...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 16, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

Mesothelioma Research, COVID Findings Featured at IASLC Conference
This study, performed during the pre-vaccine period of the pandemic, once again demonstrates the importance of vaccination against COVID-19,” said Dr. Susana Cedres, a medical oncologist with Vall d’Hebron Hospital. “Malignant pleural mesothelioma patients are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.” Cedres said since the subsequent rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, no positive cases have been attributed to pleural mesothelioma patients at the hospital. The average age of the seven patients was 62. All had the epithelioid histology of mesothelioma and two were receiving oncologic treatment at the time of diagnos...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 15, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Renal Replacement Therapies?
Discussion Kidneys are amazing in that they filter the blood, eliminate toxins, balance fluids and electrolytes plus have a lot of reserve to do the job they need to do even when injured. Therefore, depending on the problem, chronic renal disease (CRD) often allows time before renal replacement therapy (RRT) is needed. RRT currently is dialysis (peritoneal or hemodialysis) or renal transplant. In general, the patient’s own kidneys do the best job for them but there is always a balance between the problems of CRD and its management, versus the potentially improved renal function with RRT. RRT itself though has a diffe...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 13, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

New Report Details 9/11 Health Effects on FDNY Firefighters
A recent report from the Fire Department of New York World Trade Center Health Program outlines the 9/11-related health effects firefighters are dealing with 20 years later. Approximately 410,000 first responders spent the days and weeks after 9/11 inhaling toxic materials as they helped save lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers. Almost 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, 2001, but in the 20 years since, another 4,343 survivors have died due to related health effects. FDNY has felt the impact of delayed illness, as well. While 343 FDNY firefighters died on 9/11, another 254 have died since then from 9/11-related dis...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 9, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

Mesothelioma Treatment Program Expanding in Central Florida
When he first joined AdventHealth Orlando in 2019, thoracic surgeon Dr. Marcelo DaSilva wondered just how successful he could be in creating a mesothelioma specialty center in Central Florida. Now he knows. DaSilva was initially hoping to create a program that would allow Florida mesothelioma patients to stay closer to home – instead of traveling across the country – and still get the best possible treatment for this rare, tough-to-treat malignancy. But he’s already done considerably more. His vision has grown, and so has his program. More patients will benefit greatly. DaSilva recently expanded his progr...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 8, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

Preoperative CT predicts need for ventilation post-abdominal surgery
Thoracic CT in patients who are slated to undergo abdominal or pelvic surger...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Specialized CT training helps readers diagnose lung disease PET/CT may predict outcomes in lung cancer surgery ACR releases thoracic CT incidental findings guidance Through COVID-19 pandemic, CT has shown high diagnostic accuracy Rural areas lack access to CT lung cancer screening (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - September 3, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: news