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Compared with living donors aged 50 to 70 years, donor age older than 70 years may be a negative predictor of kidney transplant and graft survival, according to a presentation at the American Transplant Congress.“I set out to see if the data and outcomes of a national cohort met my anecdotal findings that living kidney donor transplants from donors [older than] 70 years don’t perform

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A history of COVID-19 nearly doubled the odds of having very short sleep, according to results from a large U.S. study presented at SLEEP 2022. “Few studies have focused on factors associated with sleep quantity and quality,” Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD, lead study author and assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest,

CHICAGO — In what researchers described as the first randomized controlled trial of chemotherapy in relapsed or refractory Ewing sarcoma, high-dose ifosfamide proved more effective in extending survival than topotecan and cyclophosphamide. Martin G. McCabe, MD, PhD, clinical senior lecturer in pediatric and adolescent oncology at University of Manchester in the U.K., presented the

CHICAGO — A combination of two targeted therapies significantly improved outcomes compared with standard care for children with BRAF V600 mutation-positive low-grade glioma, according to study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.Dabrafenib (Tafinlar, Novartis) and trametinib (Mekinist, Novartis) increased response rate, extended PFS and improved clinical benefit rate compared with

NEW ORLEANS — Risks for depression and suicidal ideation are higher among people with vs. without diabetes, and cases of suicide are likely underreported, according to a presenter at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions. Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD, chief science officer at Spotlight Consultations in Portsmouth, U.K., professor at the Southern Health NHS Foundation