Lyme disease is associated with significant health care costs
1. Lyme disease (LD) is associated with substantial health care costs, with per-patient direct costs consistently high across several analytic...
Public Health
Reports of high-impact public health and policy studies by medical professionals
![2MM: AI Roundup- AI Cancer Test, Smarter Hospitals, Faster Drug Discovery, and Mental Health Tech [May 2nd, 2025]](https://www.2minutemedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Untitled-design-350x250.png)
2MM: AI Roundup – Lilly and NVIDIA’s $1B AI lab, Illumina’s Billion Cell Atlas, AstraZeneca’s Modella deal, and Claude for Healthcare [Jan 19th, 2026]
NVIDIA and Lilly put $1B behind AI as core drug infrastructure During the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference week in mid January...
Nuzolvence (Zoliflodacin) first oral Gonorrhea treatment shows non-inferior cure rates
1. Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) is the first single‑dose oral agent for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, showing non‑inferior cure rates to ceftriaxone‑based therapy...
Patient and provider characteristics associated with difficult clinical encounters
1. In this systematic review, 17% of primary care patients were perceived as difficult by physicians, particularly those with depression,...
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2 Minute Medicine: Pharma Roundup – New oral gonorrhea antibiotic Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin), late‑December cardiovascular and oncology drug approvals, first targeted complement inhibitor therapy for HSCT‑TMA (Yartemlea), and antibody‑drug conjugate (ADC) safety concerns with ifinatamab deruxtecan (I‑DXd) [January 2026]
Oral gonorrhea antibiotic Nuzolvence approved just weeks ago The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Nuzolvence (zoliflodacin) as a first‑in‑class...
A guided mobile application may validly and efficiently assess sarcopenia and frailty in elderly patients
1. A guided mobile application can validly and efficiently assess frailty and sarcopenia with results comparable to a comprehensive geriatric...
Neighbourhood socioeconomic status may be associated with days spent at home following hip fracture in older adults
1. Among older adults with a fall-related hip fracture, residence in an economically deprived area was associated with fewer days...
Weekly islatravir plus lenacapavir maintains HIV virologic suppression
1. In this randomized controlled trial, once-weekly oral islatravir (ISL) plus lenacapavir (LEN) maintained high rates of HIV-1 virologic suppression...
One dose of human papillomavirus vaccine noninferior to two for preventing persistent infection
1. In a large randomized trial of adolescent girls, one dose of either the bivalent or nonavalent human papillomavirus (HPV)...
Positive lung cancer screens frequently receive suboptimal follow-up
1. In this retrospective cohort study, most patients with a positive lung cancer screening result received guideline-concordant follow-up, though nearly...
