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Most elderly cancer patients receive inappropriate drugs until final months, study finds

by University of Tsukuba edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes  The GIST Add as preferred source Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Analysis of the medical records of 1,269 elderly patients with advanced cancer by researchers at the University of Tsukuba has found that more than 70% were prescribed potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and that the […]

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Another cancer patient achieves HIV remission after stem cell transplant

by Nature Publishing Group edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Credit: National Cancer Institute Details of a 60-year-old male individual from Germany who achieved sustained HIV remission after a stem cell transplant, the seventh-known case reported to date, are published in Nature this week. This individual received cells with just one copy of a mutated gene for a

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