Severity of malaria infection may be independent of parasite burden
Image: PD 1. While severe malaria infections occurred during high-densitiy parasitemia, most high-density infections did not result in clinically severe...
Conventional chemotherapy may be beneficial in subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer
Image: PD 1. In this meta-analysis, progression-free survival was longer with conventional chemotherapy compared to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor...
Idelalisib may be effective in treating relapsed indolent lymphoma [DELTA Study]
Image: PD 1. Idelalisib demonstrated a clinical response to treatment in 57% of patients with indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. 2. Adverse...
Vaccine protects against hand, foot, and mouth disease in phase 3 trial
Image: Flickr/ Phoebus87 1. Children who received inactivated enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine were significantly protected from EV71-associated hand, foot, and...
Complement mutation linked to poor response to eculizumab
Image: CC/Wiki/Uthman 1. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) patients with poor response to eculizumab were found to have a mutation in complement...
PTX3 gene deficiency may increase the risk of invasive aspergillosis in transplant patients
Image: PD 1. Hematopoeitic stem-cell transplant (HSCT) patients who received donor cells with a PTX3 haplotype of h2/h2 had an...
Fluconazole in first trimester not associated with increase in most birth defects
Image: PD 1. Oral fluconazole use in the first trimester was not associated with an increase overall birth defects. 2....
Rituximab noninferior to conventional therapy in ANCA-associated vasculitis: RAVE Trial
Image: PD/Rituximab (Rituxan, MabThera) 1. At 18 months, patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis treated with one course of rituximab had similar...
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