The Lure of Specialty Medicine Pulls Nurse Practitioners From Primary Care

Michelle Andrews For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in specialty care? That’s not routine, at least not yet. Increasingly, though, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are joining cardiology, […]

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Fitness in primary school age: Our children are so unathletic

Children are less athletic and less mobile than in the years before the pandemic. The Baden-Württemberg Children’s Gymnastics Foundation has published its new fitness barometer – with these results. On the day that the Children’s Gymnastics Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg announces how worrying the fitness of three to ten year olds is, not […]

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Fitness in primary school age: How unathletic our children are

Children are less athletic and less mobile than in the years before the pandemic. The Baden-Württemberg Children’s Gymnastics Foundation has published its new fitness barometer – with these results. On the day that the Baden-Württemberg Children’s Gymnastics Foundation announced how worrying the fitness of three- to ten-year-olds was, not a single child at Michelfeld Elementary […]

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Primary Analysis of VISION Data for Tepotinib

Not intended for UK-based media First publication of primary analysis shows robust and durable clinical response in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with MET exon14 (METex14) skipping alterations; data also presented during ASCO 2020 Meaningful clinical benefit was shown to be consistent across different lines of treatment with or without brain metastases, […]

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