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Aducanumab or Aduhelm is a newly approved medicine for treating Alzheimer’s disease, with many experts asserting that it should never have gotten FDA approval. Caleb Alexander, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins and a member of the FDA review …

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Aduhelm is the proprietary name for aducanumab, a just approved medication for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Caleb Alexander, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, sat on the FDA review board for this medicine and explains why he voted no …

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Have you heard of the ‘nicotine hypothesis’? That’s the idea put forward by supposed scientific studies that somehow nicotine helped protect people from severe Covid-19 disease. Michael Blaha, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and tobacco cessation advocate, says there’s no …

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What helps people be less susceptible to Covid-19 infection and severe illness? Several recently published scientific papers appear to support the so-called ‘nicotine hypothesis,’ suggesting that nicotine may be beneficial. Micheal Blaha, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and tobacco cessation …

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If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer of a solid organ, things like prostate or breast, genetic analysis of your tumor may prove to provide important information on the best way to manage your disease, a recent study shows. William Nelson, …

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Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI is sometimes used to examine the prostate gland when cancer is suspected and a biopsy is being considered. Now a new study demonstrates its benefits. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns …

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Deaths from heart disease declined a lot until the last decade, and then began to level off. Ditto for deaths from certain cancers, a recent study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says there …

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