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WEB5 hours ago · Oct 02, 2024. TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and an eosinophilic phenotype. The approval was based on results from two pivotal phase 3 trials ...
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WEB5 hours ago · Oct 02, 2024. TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For pediatric patients with lower-extremity fracture and surgical management, low vitamin D is associated with slower clinical and radiographic healing, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, held from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in Orlando ...
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WEB5 hours ago · TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) may be able to predict future incidence of overactive bladder (OAB) in adults, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in Frontiers in Nutrition. Zeng Hui, from the Third Xiangya Hospital at Central South University in …
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2023 Cisplatin Shortage Tied to Use of Alternatives for Head, Neck ...
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