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First Drug for Lung Cancer With KRAS Mutation Gains FDA Approval
The first drug to target KRAS mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. KRAS mutations...
Sex Differences in COPD Symptoms Predict Cardiac Comorbidity
Sex-specific differences in the severity of symptoms and prevalence of comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may point to different criteria for...
Did CDC’s Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up COVID Death Toll for HCWs?
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in...
FDA Approves Cemiplimab-rwlc for NSCLC With PD-L1 Expression
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo) for the treatment of advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Specifically, the indication is...
COVID-19 Survivor Writes Thank-You Note to 116 Medical Workers
A New Yorker who spent a month in a coma with COVID-19 has written a thank-you note to 116 health care workers who helped him...
COVID-19 Appeared in Italy in November 2019, Study Shows
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Retroactive testing shows COVID-19 appeared in Italy about three months earlier...
What Happened When the Only ER Doctor in a Rural Town Got COVID
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Kurt Papenfus is the lone full-time emergency room doctor in Cheyenne...
How Much Does a Mask Protect You? The Jury’s Still Out
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Yes, you should still wear a mask. You may have heard...
Coughs Can Send Coronavirus Farther Than 6 Feet
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Droplets from a cough may travel farther than 6 feet and...
Coughs Can Send COVID Virus Farther Than 6 Feet
Nov. 5, 2020 — Droplets from a cough may travel farther than 6 feet and could potentially carry enough COVID-19 virus to infect another person,...
First Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Reinfections in US
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A 25-year-old man from Nevada and a 42-year-old man in Virginia...
Young White Men Least Likely to Wash Hands
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Frequent handwashing can reduce the spread of the coronavirus, yet some...
President Trump ‘Up and Active,’ Diagnosis Timeline Unclear
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Donald Trump is “up and active” and being closely monitored...
Tough to Tell COVID From Smoke Inhalation Symptoms
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The patients walk into Dr. Melissa Marshall’s community clinics in Northern...
Seeping Under Doors, Bad Air From West’s Fires Won’t Ease Up
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Dangerously dirty air spewing from the West Coast wildfires is seeping into homes and businesses, sneaking into cars through air conditioning...
Wildfire Smoke Tied to Diverse Health Problems
Since mid-August, wildfires have spewed smoke into California, Oregon, and Washington. In one month, fires in California alone have scorched 3.1 million acres — an...
Hazardous Air Pollutants Make COVID-19 More Serious
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. This article was produced in partnership with The Times-Picayune and The...
COVID May Have Been in LA Earlier Than Believed
By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Sept. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — There may have been cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles as early as...
Distinguishing COVID-19 From Flu in Kids Remains Challenging
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. For children with COVID-19, rates of hospitalization, ICU admission, and ventilator...
Coronavirus on Surfaces: What’s the Real Risk?
In March, concerns over the coronavirus surviving on surfaces fueled a disinfectant shopping frenzy that left store shelves bare of hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes. A video...
When Viruses Collide: Flu Season During Pandemic
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The medical community is about to find out how prepared it...
Some COVID-19 Symptoms Last for Months, Study Finds
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A British study says many coronavirus patients suffer symptoms such as...
HFNC More Comfortable for Posthypercapnic Patients With COPD
Following invasive ventilation for severe hypercapnic respiratory failure, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had similar levels of treatment failure if they received high-flow nasal...
New Symptom, Test to Guide Steroid Treatment
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape’s editors around the globe think...
Air Conditioning May Be Spreading COVID
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As COVID-19 cases rise rapidly throughout the South, some scientists believe...
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