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Mashup Score: 1New ASH Academy on Demand Resources Available | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 15 hour(s) ago
ASH Academy on Demand is a key resource provided by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to support members’ continuous education needs and professional development. Offerings include simulations, webcasts, self-paced programs, and online courses, all developed by subject matter experts, as well as opportunities for members to earn credit through maintenance of certification and continuing medical education activities. The ASH Academy catalog is always growing to better meet members’ needs — read on
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Mashup Score: 1ASH Clinical News: May 2024 From the Desk Of... - 3 day(s) ago
ASH Clinical News Editor-in-Chief Aaron Gerds, MD, previews the upcoming May issue of the magazine. Highlights include a feature on the practice of “bagging”…
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Mashup Score: 4In Full Bloom: A Closer Look at Open-Access Publishing | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 6 day(s) ago
Naseema Gangat, MBBS, is a professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In the last two decades, open-access publishing has become mainstream and is now like a rose in full bloom within the scientific world. Like Queen Mary’s Garden in London’s Regent’s Park, which boasts about 12,000 roses and is free of charge, the number of open-access journals that provide free online content to readers has blossomed to more than 20,000. 1 Roses at Queen Mary’s Garden in
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Leah Lawrence is a freelance health writer and editor based in Delaware. Use of the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) apixaban was not superior to cardiac monitoring-guided aspirin for the prevention of new ischemic lesions in a patient population with an enriched embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), according to results of the ATTICUS study published in NEJM Evidence. In a multicenter, open-label, randomized study of patients with ESUS and at least one predictive factor for atrial fibrillation
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Mashup Score: 0Pulling Back the Curtain: Ruemu Ejedafeta Birhiray, MD | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 14 day(s) ago
Mary Ellen Schneider is a medical journalist based in Setauket, New York. Ruemu E. Birhiray, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist and clinical investigator at Hematology Oncology of Indiana in Indianap olis and president and CEO of Indy Hematology Education. He is also a clinical professor of medicine at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Indianapolis. Dr. Birhiray has published research on immunotherapy, lymphomas, and bone marrow transplantation, and recently authored a practical strategy
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Mashup Score: 3High-Dose Oral Vitamin A Before HCT May Reduce GVHD in Children | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 16 day(s) ago
Katie Robinson is a medical writer based in New York. Compared with placebo, a high dose of oral vitamin A given before a hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) did not reduce the incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in children. However, the results of a phase II study published in Blood found that high-dose vitamin A given pre-HCT reduced chronic GVHD in this population and reduced acute gastrointestinal (GI) GVHD in an as-treated analysis. 1 Vitamin A maintains immune homeostasis in the
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Mashup Score: 2FDA, EMA to Review Hemophilia Treatment | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 17 day(s) ago
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted Pfizer’s Biologics License Application for marstacimab as treatment for hemophilia A or hemophilia B in patients without inhibitors to factor VIII or factor IX. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date is set for the fourth quarter of 2024. Marstacimab is a human monoclonal immunoglobulin G isotype. It works by targeting the Kunitz 2 domain of tissue factor pathway inhibitor. The treatment is being investigated as a prophylactic treatment to
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Mashup Score: 1Letter to the Editor: Choosing an Anticoagulant in Patients With APS | ASH Clinical News | American Society of Hematology - 18 day(s) ago
In the December 2023 issue of “You Make the Call,” Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS, MS, discussed treatment options for a female patient presenting with a left cerebrovascular accident likely due to contraceptive use and positive antiphospholipid antibodies (APLAs), with a recommendation for warfarin and aspirin therapy. Following the publication of four randomized trials of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) versus warfarin in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), there has been greater insecurity in
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Thomas R. Collins is a medical journalist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The anti-BCMA belantamab mafodotin (belamaf), plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone (Pd), produced durable responses in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM), but adverse ocular effects were common though manageable, researchers reported in a new paper in Nature Medicine. The results of the phase I/II ALGONQUIN trial — mainly intended to evaluate dose-limiting toxicities, identify a recommended phase II dose,
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Jill Sederstrom is a journalist based in Kansas City. For decades, health systems across the country have been devoting significant resources to make the shift to electronic health records (EHRs). Patient data are now at our fingertips at a moment’s notice, improving interoperability among providers and making it easier than ever to transfer data to pharmacies, laboratories, billing departments, and insurance companies. The growth in digitized data has also paved the path for new research advancements,
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