Salt Substitute Best Alternative In Stroke Prevention According to a study called the “Salt Substitute and Stroke Study” (SSaSS) published in the Circulation Journal, replacing conventional salt with salt substitute was a cost-effective strategy for stroke prevention and improved quality of life among the participants of the study. The SSaSS is a five-year cluster randomized […]
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Smoking cessation appears to be comparable to the use of three targeted drugs in warding off future major cardiovascular events in smokers with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to a new study. According to data from six large, prospective randomized trials, patients would gain, on average, 4.8 years free of a myocardial infarction (MI) or […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Pembrolizumab as adjuvant therapy for patients with resected, high-risk stage-IIB or -IIC melanoma appears to reduce the risk of disease recurrence or death, according to interim analyses from the KEYNOTE-716 trial. “These data indicate that adjuvant therapy with pembrolizumab might become a treatment option for patients with resected stage IIB or […]
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WASHINGTON – Treatment of patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who remained on treatment with the investigational agent mavacamten for a median of 62 weeks continued to show the same level of safe response to the drug as seen after the first 30 weeks on treatment in the pivotal trial for this agent. The new findings […]
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Younger, nonsmoking oral cancer patients have a higher risk of death than that of young smokers, and the outcomes may be related to immune deficiencies. The finding comes from a database of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients treated between 1985 and 2015. Recent studies have shown an association between high neutrophil to lymphocyte […]
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