Tim Andrews, 67, is still alive and is back on the waiting list for a human donor. However, the success of his highly experimental procedure means more patients are scheduled to get genetically modified animal organs.
A new study published in JAMA, which looked at fee-for-service Medicare records from 2013–2023, found that overall participation has trended upward. However, the details paint a complicated picture.
Research that followed patients for more than 13 years suggests increases in ECG PR interval, P‐wave duration and PTFV1 are associated with increased AFib risk in this cohort.
“Given the dramatic difference in death risk for older adults receiving complex PCI, we suggest that such interventions in this exceptionally vulnerable population should be approached with additional caution," researchers wrote.
The FDA is expected to base its decision in part on the STELLAR clinical trial, which included 163 adult patients treated with subcutaneous sotatercept and 160 patients treated with a placebo.
The popular SGLT2 inhibitor, sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company under the name Jardiance, has already been approved by the FDA to treat type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
Both ChatGPT and GPT-4 were found to be be good at analyzing free-text notes for lung cancer insights. One of the two programs, however, was able to outperform the other.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University are commissioning a study to determine if a novel MRI technique can predict the effectiveness of chemotherapy in treating breast cancer.
Hospital patients who test positive for Clostridioides difficile immediately upon admission but show no symptoms are highly unlikely to spread the germ to other inpatients.
