Sat.Feb 15, 2025

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New Test Could Help Identify Patients That Would Benefit From Blood Thinners

Drug Topics

Currently, blood-thinning medications are only prescribed to patients who have already had a heart attack or stroke, as the drugs can cause serious bleeding.

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Cabozantinib Extends Survival in RCC Patients with Untreated Brain Metastases

Pharmacy Times

Data from the phase 2 CABRAMET trial suggests the potential of cabozantinib for treatment of brain metastases from renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

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Navigating an Uncertain Regulatory Landscape

PharmExec

OncLive serves as the connection to oncology, including groundbreaking cancer news and interviews with top oncologists in multimedia formats.

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Refining CRS and ICANS Management in CAR T-Cell Therapy: Understanding Evolving Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment Strategies

Pharmacy Times

C. Brooke Adams, PharmD, BCOP, discusses the evolving diagnostic criteria and management strategies for cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) in CAR T-cell therapy, highlighting advances in toxicity prevention and treatment selection.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Opinion: A physician and author’s 1984 tribute to the NIH feels all the more valuable today

STAT

Every couple of weeks I travel to Princeton University to do archival research for a planned biography of the physician-humanist Lewis Thomas (1913-1993). Thomas was president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, author of “ The Lives of a Cell ,” and winner of two National Book Awards and a 1989 Lasker Prize , which heralded him as “the poet laureate of 20th Century medicine.

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Targeting Nectin-4 and HER2 in Urothelial Cancer: The Evolving Role of ADCs

Pharmacy Times

Enfortumab vedotin, trastuzumab deruxtecan, and disitamab vedotin were highlighted at the 2025 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

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Etranacogene Dezaparvovec-drlb Delivers Sustained, Increased Bleed Protection Compared With Prophylaxis in Hemophilia B

Pharmacy Times

A one-time infusion of etranacogene dezaparvovec-drlb led to sustained bleeding control and a reduction in factor IX prophylaxis in patients with hemophilia B.

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