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Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common acute adult cancer diagnosed in the United States; 61,000 Americans are living with this disease and more than 10,000 will die of it this year.

The importance of sleep is magnified for patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), who commonly experience sleep disturbances due to changes in their neurotransmitter systems. However, the impact of AD and other dementias on sleep is also seen among caregivers of patients with dementia.

Sessions and posters from the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis discussed various ways to measure patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis.

The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) Tuesday released their final Healthy Marketplace Index, which also showed that 69% of markets studied showed an increase in concentration.

The FDA grants fast track designation of AstraZeneca's dapagliflozin; California to conduct public awareness campaign against vaping; no new US measles cases.

Researchers found that post-chemotherapy minimal residual disease (MRD) subtypes were associated with a pattern of failure and time to failure.

Oncologists may be able to use circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to guide treatment decisions and predict which patients will have disease recurrence, according to 2 studies in JAMA Oncology.

Amgen recently announced early phase 3 CANDOR study data, showing the triple-drug combination of carfilzomib (Kyprolis), along with dexamethasone and daratumumab (Darzalex, sold by Janssen), met its primary end point of progression-free survival (PFS), in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), with a 37% reduction in the risk of progression or death.  
 

The sleep timing preferences and patterns of adolescent girls are linked to an increased risk for obesity, with weaker, albeit non-significant, associations observed in boys, according to a new study.

The researchers found that HIV significantly increases the risk of atrial fibrillation—a leading cause of stroke—at the same rate as or higher than known risk factors, including diabetes and hypertension.