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Medical Xpress / IV iron improves survival, increases hemoglobin in patients with iron-deficiency anemia and acute infection

Treatment with intravenous (IV) iron significantly improved survival and increased hemoglobin levels in patients with iron-deficiency anemia who were hospitalized for an acute bacterial infection, according to an analysis ...

Medical Xpress / Black patients with AML are younger at diagnosis, experience poorer survival outcomes than white patients, data show

Compared with white patients, Black patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were on average more than five years younger at diagnosis, more than 30% more likely to die of their disease, and more than 20% more likely to ...

14 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Measurable residual disease shows strong potential as an early indicator of survival in patients with AML

Sensitive tests designed to detect very small numbers of remaining leukemia cells after treatment, known as measurable residual disease (MRD), may provide an early and reliable indicator of long-term outcomes for patients ...

14 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Trial shows chemotherapy and radiation are comparable as pre-transplant conditioning for patients with B-ALL

In a new trial, patients with B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) who had no evidence of remaining cancer cells after prior treatment, experienced comparable outcomes whether they received chemotherapy-based conditioning ...

14 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Roughly one-third of families with children being treated for leukemia struggle to pay living expenses

Nearly a third of families with children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)—the most common pediatric cancer—develop serious financial difficulties during their child's treatment, including ...

14 hours ago in Pediatrics
Medical Xpress / Protective regimen allows successful stem cell transplant even without close genetic match between donor and recipient

A new study shows that giving the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, a curative treatment for common types of blood cancer, can make the procedure safe and effective even ...

14 hours ago in Surgery
Phys.org / Discovering how time shapes the lives of birds

New research from Te Herenga Waka Ph.D. graduate Tirth Vaishnav is exploring how birds' behavior and ecology vary across seasons and in response to both natural and human-driven environmental changes.

10 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world's leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral ...

10 hours ago in Business
Medical Xpress / Non-covalent btki pirtobrutinib shows promise as frontline therapy for CLL/SLL

Pirtobrutinib, a non-covalent Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, met the primary endpoint for non-inferiority in terms of overall response rate in the first head-to-head comparison with ibrutinib, a covalent BTK inhibitor. ...

14 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Quality improvement project results in increased screening and treatment for iron deficiency in pregnancy

Within a year of initiation, a multidisciplinary project to improve screening and treatment for iron deficiency in pregnancy resulted in a six-fold rise in screening rates for iron deficiency in pregnant patients, a 20-fold ...

Medical Xpress / Altering the daily timing of immunotherapy could improve survival in people with cancer

Receiving anticancer immunotherapy earlier in the day may help individuals with cancer live longer. That's according to a study published in Cancer.

18 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Why are hepatitis B shots given to newborns? Can birth doses wait? Here's what to know

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

10 hours ago in Pediatrics