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Adding the drug Keytruda to standard chemotherapy can extend the lives of some women with an aggressive form of breast cancer, a new study finds. The study involved women with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, a hard-to-treat form of the disease. Read more
Five years ago, Lacey Murga and her husband decided they wanted to have a baby. But Murga’s menstrual cycle had always been irregular—she had a hard time figuring out the best time to try to conceive. So she looked online Read more
Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and, without a doubt, Read more
A new city antismoking campaign is highlighting Philadelphians’ stories about quitting to encourage others to do the same. The initiative is a months-long effort to tamp down tobacco use in Philadelphia, which has one of the highest smoking rates among Read more
The prevalence of hollow viscus injury (HVI) among patients with an abdominal seat belt sign (SBS) and negative findings on computed tomography (CT) is extremely low, according to a study published online July 13 in JAMA Surgery. Patrick T. Delaplain, Read more
Cases of acute hepatitis without known cause have been described in children in two case series published online July 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine. L. Helena Gutierrez Sanchez, M.D., from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Read more
Short sleep duration is causally associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study published online June 30 in Frontiers in Public Health. Rui-Chen Gao, from the School of Nursing at Anhui Medical University in Hefei, Read more