July 17, 2025

Vapes Outperform Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Cessation Trial

Researchers found vaporized nicotine products more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults.

Conexiant

July 15, 2025

Enhancing NSCLC Brain Metastasis Treatment With MR-Guided Ultrasound: Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO

Combining magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound with microbubbles and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) could transform non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment by reducing radiation side effects.

Baptist Health South Florida

July 11, 2025

Small Air Pollution Increases Linked to Fibrosis

A large imaging study found that even small increases in long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution were linked to higher levels of myocardial fibrosis, a known marker of adverse heart remodeling, in both healthy individuals and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Conexiant

July 10, 2025

HHS Scraps Preventive Care Panel Meeting

HHS unexpectedly canceled a meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, prompting fears it may be dismantled following similar moves by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at other federal health agencies.

Conexiant

June 30, 2025

Can Typos Change a Diagnosis?

Large language models used in clinical decision-making may offer different treatment recommendations depending on how a patient writes their message—even when the medical facts remain unchanged.

Conexiant

June 25, 2025

I Was Expecting to Hear I Have Heart Disease, Not Cancer

In 2022, I had a computed tomography (CT) coronary calcium scan to see whether there were any signs of narrowing or blockage in my heart arteries. Heart disease runs in my family. My father died of a ...

The ASCO Post

June 24, 2025

AI vs. MDs: Who Navigates the Airways Better?

A new systematic review evaluated 20 studies on artificial intelligence in bronchoscopy and found AI systems often performed as well as or better than human experts in tasks such as airway navigation and lymph node classification.

Conexiant

June 19, 2025

AI Models Predict Lung Cancer Risk Better

A new review finds AI-based models more accurate than traditional regression models at predicting lung cancer risk, especially when using low-dose CT imaging data.

Conexiant

June 19, 2025

Morristown Medical Center First in New Jersey to Offer Nonsurgical Ablation Technique for Advanced Lung Cancer

Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center is the first hospital in New Jersey to offer patients a new, minimally invasive option to treat advanced lung cancer. The procedure couples technology from the Aliya™ Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) Energy Platform with a robotic Ion Bronchoscopy.

Atlantic Health System