Geriatric

Lou PorteroHeart Health | November 2, 2022
The researchers found significant disparities in the treatment of rural and urban patients for heart attack and stroke.
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Lou PorteroPublic Health | May 31, 2022
Getting the right amount of sleep is very important; too much or too little can affect our health and wellbeing. There ...
Kaitlyn BebbinoPublic Health | May 18, 2022
Dr. MarkAlain Déry, MPH discusses the often alarmingly overlooked rates of opioid overdose (an almost 2000% increase) ...
Ariel JonesCancer | December 23, 2021
The all-oral, once-daily, fixed-duration combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax demonstrated superior undetectable MRD ...
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | December 17, 2021
Researchers developed a virtual frailty assessment for older adults with hematologic malignancies and found no evidence ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | December 17, 2021
Nearly half of new diagnosed of multiple myeloma (MM) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are in patients over 75 years old.
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | December 8, 2021
Patients with a higher degree of frailty and those exposed to a geriatric assessment (GA) had more conversations and ...
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | December 8, 2021
Increasing or decreasing the dose of the second-generation TKI dasatinib based on therapeutic effect and adverse events ...
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | November 29, 2021
An analysis of overall survival data for AML revealed “high unmet need and dismal long-term OS” in older patients.
Rebecca AraujoColorectal Cancer | November 17, 2021
Incidence rates of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) are similar among Black and White individuals aged 40 to 49 years.
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | October 19, 2021
Data from a real-world study indicated that autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) should be offered to elderly ...
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | October 11, 2021
Patients with metastatic cancer who had Medicare or Medicaid and those from racial or ethnic minority groups were more ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | October 6, 2021
A prospective multicenter trial found that the use of either ixazomib plus liposome doxorubicin (IAd) or ixazomib plus ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | October 6, 2021
Clinical judgment of frailty alone underestimates the geriatric risk profile in newly diagnosed elderly patients with ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | September 30, 2021
Shakira Grant, MBBS, a researcher with the University of North Carolina Center for Aging and Health, has been awarded a ...
Urban Health Today EditorsCancer | September 16, 2021
Older adults were underrepresented in a large sample of cancer clinical trials, according to a recent study. ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | August 25, 2021
Receipt of triplet therapy was associated with the best survival outcomes among patients with multiple myeloma (MM) aged ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | August 25, 2021
Patients aged 75 or older with multiple myeloma (MM) can successfully undergo autologous hematopoietic cell ...
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | July 27, 2021
The researchers looked at data from older adults with newly diagnosed MM from the SEER-Medicare database from 2007 to 2013.
Urban Health Today EditorsMultiple Myeloma | July 21, 2021
A subgroup analysis of the PANORAMA 3 study showed that patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (MM) aged ...
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