Exercise during curative chemotherapy for breast cancer has proven benefits. It helps reduce fatigue, preserve muscle strength, improve fitness, and enhance overall quality of life. Staying physically active…
With a wave of FDA approvals and promising clinical trials, treatment options for metastatic breast cancer are expanding fast. Amy Tiersten, MD, highlights the power of immunotherapies—especially checkpoint…
The CARE1 pragmatic clinical trial was designed to determine the optimal treatment combination for patients with metastatic kidney cancer, using a specific biomarker. The trial, funded by the…
At the Iowa Ideas 2023 Conference, Dustin Arnold, medical officer for Unity Point Health at St Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids; Tony Meyers, chief medical officer at Mercy Medical…
Angela Belcher, PhD; Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD; and Paula Hammond, PhD, from the Koch Institute at MIT, Cambridge, MA, present multi-dimensional approaches to early detection in ovarian cancer.…
Ken Berry, MD, a family physician, discusses polycystic kidney disease (PKD), the most common inherited kidney disease. PKD is characterized by enlarging cysts in the kidney that can…
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a common cause of secondary hypertension, particularly in young people. PKD is a group of disorders, with the most relevant being autosomal dominant…
Mohamed Tinawi, MD, a nephrologist from Northwest Indiana, provides an update from Kidney Week 2023, discussing several significant studies and trials. Results from the DUPLEX trial, published in…
Michael Collins, MBChB, FRACP, PhD, a kidney transplant specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, discusses his research on improving kidney transplant outcomes. He explains that during organ donation,…
Edward P.K. Kwakyi, BSc, and Rasheed A. Gbadegesin, MBBS, MD, FASN, discuss the role of apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) in kidney diseases, particularly in people of African ancestry. APOL1…
This video includes clinical vignettes in dermatology designed to improve clinical knowledge and move through differential diagnoses quickly and efficiently.
