Gina Battaglia Medical Writing
Writing about medical, science, and health topics since 2012 for audiences including medical professionals, healthcare industry, students, and the general public.
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HIV/AIDS tests for Early Infant Diagnosis in South Africa
The Global Access Program is the Roche Group’s proactive response to an enormous humanitarian challenge. Since its inception in 2014, the program has increased access to HIV testing at substantially reduced prices in sub-Saharan Africa and countries where the disease burden is highest. The Global Access Program focuses on the complete continuum of care, from testing to monitoring, education, and works to optimise efforts on a regional basis.
One of the reasons why we started the Global Access Pr...
One of the reasons why we started the Global Access Pr...
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Safeguards for Minors in Clinical Research: An IRB Perspective
Evolving strategies in prostate cancer: Emerging approaches and unmet needs from the Bridging the Gaps in Prostate Cancer expert panel
Management of prostate cancer (PC) has evolved rapidly with the development of treatment combinations based on presumed risk for disease progression, but gaps remain in this risk-based treatment approach. The “Bridging the Gaps (BTG) in Prostate Cancer” meeting was held on March 27, 2025, in Weehawken, New Jersey and included a diverse group of PC experts who practice in academic, community, and veterans health care system settings in medical oncology, urology, and radiation oncology. These pane...
Clinical strategies for lung cancer management: Recommendations from the Bridging the Gaps Lung Cancer Consensus Conference 2024
PATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH (PCOR): How Can We Optimize Outcomes in CNS Research?
Diffusion I | Chemistry | Visionlearning
If you’ve ever made cookies and left the kitchen door open, you’re probably aware that the aroma spreads throughout the house. It is strongest in the kitchen, where the cookies are baking, a little less in the dining or living room, and least in the upstairs corner bedroom. And if the door is closed in the corner bedroom, the cookie scent is even weaker.
This is a delicious example of diffusion, or the movement of matter from a region of high concentration (the cookie pan in the kitchen) to a...
This is a delicious example of diffusion, or the movement of matter from a region of high concentration (the cookie pan in the kitchen) to a...
A Look at Lynkuet® (Elinzanetant) for the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Vasomotor Symptoms | Patient Care Online
Elinzanetant is a novel, dual neurokinin (NK) 1,3 receptor agonist that has recently been approved for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS), commonly known as hot flashes, associated with menopause.1 VMS are extremely common during menopause, affecting up to 80% of women (of these, approximately one-third have highly frequent or severe symptoms), and often persist for 7 to 10 years after the last menstrual period.2,3 VMS can contribute to sleep disturbances (reported in u...
Hepatitis C Virus: Task Shifting and Screening | Contagion Live
Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related mortalities have decreased in recent years with the advent of highly eff ective antiviral therapies, but the incidence of new infections has continued to increase, particularly in younger individuals. As a result, it is crucial to identify those at high risk for HCV and to establish universal screening of adults, according to experts who participated in a recent Contagion® Peer Exchange panel titled, “Curing Your Patients From Hepatitis C: Addressing Complex Needs...
Testing for Viral Respiratory Illnesses: Best Practices, Types of Tests, Advantages and Drawbacks, and Patient/Provider Education | Contagion Live
Testing for influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is important for individuals at high risk for these diseases, and broadening access to at-home testing and treatment could improve infection control in the community and minimize unnecessary use of health care resources, according to panelists who participated in a recent Contagion Peer Exchange panel moderated by Tina Tan, MD. The panelists also discussed factors to consider when deciding whether to test patients for viral r...
Emerging Uses for Circulating Tumor Cell Technology | OncLive
Detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which are released from primary or metastatic lesions into the bloodstream and are the “seeds” for distant metastatic lesions, has been of interest in cancer research and treatment because these cells can potentially provide information on cancer detection, prognosis, and likelihood of treatment response with minimally invasive methods (eg, a blood draw).1 Development of validated technologies to isolate and detect CTCs has been slow because of their...
Targeting HRAS Mutations With Investigational Tipifarnib May Hold Promise in Some Tumor Types | Targeted Oncology - Immunotherapy, Biomarkers, and Cancer Pathways
Tipifarnib, a highly potent and selective nonpeptide farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI), has shown highly durable responses in HRAS-mutant, heavily pretreated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) that has failed to respond to other approved therapies. However, the high variability in responses among different types of HRAS-altered cancers highlights the need to identify rational therapeutic combinations that enhance response to HRAS-directed therapies.HRAS is 1 of 3 human RAS proteins...
Targeting KRAS-Mutant Tumors With Indirect Targeting of Related Pathways Yields Hope in Solid Tumors | Targeted Oncology - Immunotherapy, Biomarkers, and Cancer Pathways
Targeting component of signal transduction pathways associated with KRAS may be the long-awaited solution for management of certain cancers harboring KRAS mutations, once considered an undruggable target, according to promising results from early-stage clinical trials. However, the efficacy of each combination therapy will likely depend on the tumor lineage, Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, told Targeted Therapies in Oncology in an interview.KRAS mutations are common in multiple types of cancer, including...
New Homologous Recombination Deficiency Findings in Pancreatic Cancer Alter Treatment Focus | Targeted Oncology - Immunotherapy, Biomarkers, and Cancer Pathways
Eileen M. O Reilly, MDPARP inhibitors following platinum-based chemotherapy as well as immunotherapy combinations have shown early signs of efficacy in metastatic pancreatic cancer with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD), according to data presented at the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 23 to 25 in San Francisco, California. Recent research also presented at the meeting showed that most patients with a germlineBRCAmutation do not have a family history o...
Contagious Enthusiasm | CURE
An individual with cancer faces plenty of challenges, so when a viral infection sets up camp in the body, it’s never welcome news — that is, unless the virus has been modified and introduced intentionally to kill cancer.That’s the concept behind oncolytic virus therapies, which are generating attention from researchers and pharmaceutical developers for their potential to create a new class of immuneenhancing drugs.U.S. clinical trials are exploring more than 16 genetically modified virus therapi...
Improving Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: Laboratory and Clinical Approaches | Contagion Live
Diagnostic testing for Lyme disease is challenging because of the low sensitivity of currently approved laboratory tests, the broad spectrum of clinical presentations, and differences in how clinicians interpret findings. Therefore, diagnosis may be optimized with a careful assessment of risk factors for exposure and the patient’s pattern of symptoms, according to experts who participated in a Contagion® Peer Exchange panel.The panelists also discussed novel technologies that could improve the s...
Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease Emphasizes Importance of Recognizing Modes of Transmission | Contagion Live
Lyme disease, although focused in the northeastern United States, has expanded geographically over the past few decades, with a >320% increase in the number of high-incidence counties1 and reported cases in 49 states.2 Recognition of Lyme disease has improved in endemic areas; however, health care practitioners in other areas of the United States may be unfamiliar with the clinical presentation, according to experts who participated in a Contagion® Peer Exchange panel.The geographic spread...
Assessing Cell Health: Necroptosis
Necroptosis is a programmed form of necrotic cell death that is dependent on activation of receptor interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) and occurs when caspase activation is insufficient or blocked. Unlike necrosis, an unregulated form of cell death caused by external physicochemical stress, necroptosis is highly regulated and acts as a defense mechanism or escape route for cells infected with viruses that inhibit apoptosis signaling proteins (examples of these viruses include the murine cytome...
Immunotherapies Combined With Lung Cancer Treatments Could Be Practice Changing | Targeted Oncology - Immunotherapy, Biomarkers, and Cancer Pathways
Paul A. Bunn Jr, MDRecent randomized clinical trials that have combined immunotherapy with chemotherapy, molecular therapy, or anti-angiogenic therapy for the treatment of patients with lung cancer have shown promising results for these combinations. None of the combinations have yet risen to the top though, said Paul A. Bunn Jr, MD in his presentation at the 2016 International Lung Cancer Congress.Bunn, Distinguished Professor and chair of Lung Cancer Research at the University of Colorado Canc...
Alaskan Oncology Practices Operate by Remote | OncLive
Eugene Huang, MD Obtaining quality cancer care in Alaska is often difficult and expensive owing to the sparse highway network and the scattered nature of the state’s population of 736,000 people, who are spread out over more than a half-million square miles. For oncology practices, the use of local primary care providers to aid oncologists and recent advances in telemedicine have helped to overcome these barriers and increase the availability of cost-effective, evidence-based medicine.For radiati...
In Pursuit of (Ig) Nobility: The Ig Nobel Prize
Believe it or not, these are internationally acclaimed, award-winning research topics in physics, medicine, and chemistry. They did not quite meet the criteria for the Nobel Prize, but were honored at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on September 17, 2015. Led by Marc Abrahams, editor and cofounder of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the ceremony honors “achievements that make people laugh, then think — in that order,” according to the Improbable Research website.The Ig N...
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