Medical News Today: Nutrition: Even identical twins respond differently to food

The largest ongoing study of its kind finds that people’s responses to food vary depending on a wide variety of factors. The findings suggest that the future of nutrition lies in personalized dietary advice. New research shows why doctors need to personalize nutritional advice. Despite repeated public awareness campaigns and official dietary recommendations, the obesity…

The Need for Clinical Trial Navigators

But the problem of low enrollment is often attributed to patient resistance. The reluctance of some patients makes perfect sense to me. Fear about unforeseen side effects escalates when consent forms, like the ones I signed, state that a new regimen cannot cure but might kill patients. People facing a poor prognosis may not want…

More than 5 million cancer survivors experience chronic pain, twice the rate of the general population

More than 5 million cancer survivors in the United States experience chronic pain, almost twice the rate in the general population, according to a study published by Mount Sinai researchers in JAMA Oncology in June. Researchers used the National Health Interview Survey, a large national representative dataset from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma benefit from targeted therapies

PHILADELPHIA–Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC)–who are often underrepresented in clinical trials to treat the kidney cancer–are seeing overall survival benefits from treatment with targeted therapies, according to a new study from Penn Medicine researchers published this month in JAMA Network Open. Analyzing 13 years of data on Medicare patients, the study…