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Adjuvant therapy with atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and bevacizumab (Avastin) increased recurrence-free survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following surgical resection or ablation, according to the results from the phase III IMbrave050 clinical trial. The mainstays of curative therapies for early-stage HCC include surgical resection and thermal ablation, a treatment that destroys the cancer cells with heat or cold. However, the risk of recurrence reaches 70%–80% five years after resection or ablation with curative intent, said Pierce Chow, FRCS(E), Ph.D. According to the results of an interim analysis conducted after a median follow-up of 17.4 months, the trial met its primary...

Asserting that enforcing laws against theft has a disproportionate impact on racial minorities, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is using prosecutorial discretion to decide whether to press charges against thieves. "I ask myself, 'why would a person carjack a Mercedes/'" Bragg said. "The simple answer is poverty. The vehicle costs more than the thief can afford. Is that just? Does a person fortunate enough to be able to buy such a vehicle have a stronger moral claim to ownership than the thief? Well, if the owner is white and the thief is black I think not. The black person has...

Former President Donald Trump enjoys a national lead against His Fraudulency Joe Biden in a potential 2024 rematch. In 2020, Biden (allegedly) beat Trump by 4.5 points nationally. Polling at the time, according to the RealClearPolitics (RCP) national average, suggested Trump would lose by 7.2 points. In other words, Trump out-performed the polling. Also of note is that not once during the 2020 election did the average of RCP national polls show Trump with a lead. Throughout the campaign, the closest Trump came to Biden was a four-point deficit. Today, the RealClearPolitics poll of national polls shows Trump with an...

An NBC News poll shows that Democrat President Joe Biden trails a generic Republican significantly, ahead of his expected campaign launch this week, a major setback for the incumbent president who is likely to seek a second term. The poll found that if Biden runs and is the Democrat nominee for president, only 41 percent of respondents would probably or definitely vote for him in November 2024. In contrast, if Biden is the Democrat nominee, 47 percent of respondents said they would probably or definitely vote for the GOP nominee, whoever it is.

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Moving between apartment blocks, small teams of Ukrainian and Russian ground forces are battling for control of Bakhmut’s western edge. “We can attack and repel them for a day or two, or they can advance, and we have to retreat again,” said a 35-year old Ukrainian junior sergeant responsible for holding a position in a high-rise building just a few yards from the front line. Like others in this report, he spoke on condition that he only be identified by his rank and call sign “Bandit” in keeping with military protocol. “I don’t even know, to be...

A regimen of pre-surgical immunotherapy and chemotherapy followed by post-surgical immunotherapy significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) and pathologic complete response (pCR) rates compared to chemotherapy alone for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to Phase III trial results presented by researchers. The AEGEAN trial evaluated durvalumab given perioperatively, meaning therapy is given both before and after surgery. Participants on the trial received either pre-surgical (neoadjuvant) durvalumab and platinum-based chemotherapy followed by post-surgical (adjuvant) durvalumab or neoadjuvant placebo and chemotherapy followed by adjuvant placebo. "Throughout decades of research with adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, we only succeeded in increasing...

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Storing donor lungs for transplant at 10 degrees Celsius markedly increases the length of time the organ can live outside the body according to research. The clinical trial study of 70 patients demonstrated that donor lungs remained healthy and viable for transplant up to four times longer compared to storage at the current standard of ice cooler preservation of around 4 degrees Celsius. "The clinical impact of this study is huge. It's a paradigm shift for the practice of lung transplant," says Dr. Marcelo Cypel. "I have no doubt that this will become the gold standard practice of lung preservation...

* Chinese version of Elon Musk's vision could travel up to 1,000km/h, top engineers say. * Several major cities were considered for mega project, expected to be operational by 2035. China is likely to build its first hyperloop train line between Shanghai and Hangzhou, according to the nation's top engineering and rail design institutes. The 150km-long (93-mile) in-vacuum tunnel will allow maglev trains to travel at speeds of up to 1,000km/h (621mph). The Chinese Academy of Engineering and rail authorities commissioned a "comprehensive assessment on the candidate construction sites for ultra-high speed pipeline maglev system demonstration line", and the two...

[Catholic Caucus] Head of Pontifical Academy for Life favors legalizing assisted suicideOne figure in the high Vatican circles has been particularly controversial: Archbp. Vicenzo Paglia.As Bishop of Terni he had installed in the apse of the cathedral a homoerotic fresco in which he is identifiable, wearing a zucchetto. As head of the Lateran he has dismantled the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family. HERE As President of the Pontifical Academy for Life he has involved various population control figures in events. HERE He suggested that the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception will change. HEREHe has now weighed...

Follow along with me now. This is not complicated. Russia reached a tentative agreement with the Government of Sudan to build a base for the Russian Navy on Sudan’s coast. Yet the media claims that Moscow is behind the current counter coup by the Rapid Security Force aka RSF, which is trying to replace the Government that reached the agreement with Russia. Not one word about the United States activities there. Here is one example: The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in fights against the Sudanese army, according to CNN. Okay....

The drug atogepant may help prevent migraines for people who have had no success with other preventive drugs, according to a preliminary study. The study involved people with episodic migraine, which is defined as having up to 14 headache days per month with migraine characteristics. Atogepant is a calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist, or CGRP inhibitor. CGRP is a protein that plays a key role in starting the migraine process. "These results are exciting, as migraine can be debilitating, and this treatment led to fewer days with migraine for people who had already tried up to four other types of...

Laxalt is joining the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down as chair, the group confirmed to Fox News on Saturday. Officials with Never Back Down, which is the top outside group backing an expected 2024 presidential campaign by DeSantis, said that Laxalt had been involved unofficially with the super PAC for weeks and is now coming on board in an official capacity. The super PAC was founded early last month by Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general and 2013 gubernatorial nominee who later served as acting deputy homeland security director during the last two years of the Trump administration....

Well, this is disappointing news. The Washington Post reported Thursday that “the national Democratic Party has said it will support Biden’s reelection, and it has no plans to sponsor primary debates.” It’s understandable: the Dems have a president, of sorts, and so they’re counting on the power of incumbency to help their superannuated kleptocrat get over the top again. However, it’s also immensely disappointing, because after years and years of Democratic presidential debates being dreary displays of candidates trying to out-socialist one another, 2024 Democratic primary debates would have actually had something to offer. Biden has two challengers, Robert F....

American forces carried out a precarious evacuation of US embassy personnel in Sudan, President Joe Biden said late Saturday, calling for the end to “unconscionable” violence there as two rival leaders battled for power in the African country. Biden thanked the US troops who carried out the mission to extract American staffers in Sudan. With the last American embassy worker out, Washington shuttered the US mission in Khartoum indefinitely. The US said it had no current plans for a government-coordinated evacuation of an estimated 16,000 other Americans remaining in Sudan, calling the situation too dangerous.

@RandPaul Unrestrained U.S. aid for Ukraine must come to an end, and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that the Republican Party is attempting to “roll back” the civil liberties of women and LGBTQ Americans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think we are in a extremely serious moment. I believe that the Republican Party is not starting at Roe. They will not stop at Roe. They will not stop at women’s rights.” She added, “I believe what we are seeing is a concerted roll back of civil liberties in general. Our right to privacy, our right to bodily autonomy, all right to marry whomever we wish to marry, all of...

It will never work for Bobby Jr. to speak to the national public without getting a voice filter that outputs his own voice with the palsy filtered out. For most people his palsy is too distracting, they listen to the weirdness of the shaking rather than what he's saying. It takes to much concentration to get what he's really at. Along with establishment attacks on him as a kook, even if he could get into the Democrat debates, it's political poison. Bobby's vocal palsy isn't caused by Parkinson's, it's caused by a rare disorder that, I think, is nearly directly...

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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the government should not interfere with parents’ decisions on hormone treatments for transgender children Anchor Shannon Bream said, “Let’s talk about another hot-button issue, transitions for patients and people under the age of 18. People have argued that your position is not truly conservative. You vetoed a bill that would have prohibited hormone treatment or puberty blockers for people under the age of 18.”