Clinicians now have updated guidelines to help them manage hypertension in persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure unveiled its seventh report (JNC VII) at the recent American Society of Hypertension meeting in New York City.
Targeted Drug Combination Reveals New Activity in Brain Tumors
December 28th 2021A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.