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How a No Room Rent Cap Can Improve Your Health Insurance Claim
A hospital stay can become expensive for reasons that go beyond treatment alone. Room charges are one part of the bill that may affect how much you eventually pay out of pocket. A health insurance policy with no room rent cap can offer more flexibility in choosing a hospital room, subject to policy terms. This […]
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FDA OKs Etcamah for advanced breast cancer
The FDA has granted accelerated approval to camizestrant in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor for adults with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
The approval for camizestrant (Etcamah, AstraZeneca) is dependent on the detection of an ESR1 mutation during aromatase and CDK4/6 inhibitor therapy.
The FDA said in a press release that it based its decision on the randomized, phase 3 SERENA-6 trial, which showed a 56% improvement in PFS with the camizestrant combination compared with standard of care.
“This is the proof that precision medicine is
Walmart frozen berries recalled for possible E. coli contamination
The FDA announced a recall of frozen berries sold at Walmart due to an expanding Escherichia coli outbreak that has sickened 17 people in two states — six of whom have been hospitalized.
The recalled product — Great Value Organic Triple Berry Blend — has been sold in Walmart stores in 16 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
The product information is as follows:
The recall is part of a broader investigation of frozen berry products sourced from a Chilean
Missed pediatric appointments spiked during ICE activity in Minnesota
Missed appointments and reschedule requests spiked at pediatric outpatient facilities in Minnesota during increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity last winter, data show.
Hispanic/Latino and Spanish-speaking families were disproportionately affected, according to findings published in Pediatrics.
“I saw a precipitous drop in my clinic patients during the peak Operation Metro Surge timeframe,” Asitha D. L. Jayawardena, MD, MPH, FACS, a pediatric otolaryngologist at Children’s Minnesota, told Healio. “These were disproportionately Hispanic and Somali families, so I decided to run a