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Response rate of 33.3 percent, median response duration of 7.7 months observed in 108 patients

Primary end point occurred in lower percentage of patients in 180-day period; difference not significant

Cognitive activity in midlife linked to reduced risks for total dementia, Alzheimer disease

About half of those reporting dissatisfaction at preop saw clinically meaningful improvement

Risk 2.7 percent in women aged 85 years and older, 23.6 percent in men aged 55 to 59 years

Restoration of proprioception seen in two transradial amputees; detection of slipping in hand amputee

Additional 10 primary care physicians per 100,000 population linked to reduced mortality

CTE-related ptau pathology evolves according to age; CTE frequency higher in professional football players

Company has faced lawsuits linking its body powders with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma

Proposed rule will help consumers better understand what the sunscreens they are buying can actually do

Assessments will lay groundwork for future study of the health effects of perfluoroalkyl, polyfluoroalkyl

Cases of glottic carcinoma in patients aged 30 years or younger tested positive for high-risk HPV

Any exposure increases spontaneous abortion risk; cardiac septal defects up for use in early pregnancy

Trial unavailable at patients’ institution 55.6 percent of the time; 21.5 percent of patients ineligible

Mean five-year change lower in Expanded Disability Status Scale score with early intensive treatment

Cancer deaths rates decreasing faster for black men and women vs. white men and women in U.S.

Reduced risk seen for total CVD, coronary heart disease incidence for men and women

Television accounted for most screen time in children aged 0 to 2 and 3 to 5 years in 2014

Two large trials show benefits for pembrolizumab-axitinib and avelumab-axitinib versus sunitinib

Patients with lupus had fivefold greater representation of Ruminococcus gnavus