Colorado voters legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients last November, but the resistance of the state’s Catholic health systems may make aid-in-dying services difficult to access.

A study of a new HIV neutralizing antibody, 10-1074, has completed its testing in humans. Led by Florian Klein, of the University Hospital Cologne and German Center for Infection Research, the research is published in Nature Medicine. 

Researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have completed a phase 3 trial on the effectiveness of a drug on advanced liver cancer.

Drug manufacturers have used money to increase their clout with patient advocacy groups, clinical guidelines and physicians, according to a series of commentaries published in JAMA Internal Medicine.  

Infusion System Exchanges Data with Leading EMR and Alarm Management Systems to Improve Patient Safety, Care Quality and Outcomes

Tempus and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, part of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University­, have formed a partnership to develop genomic data, advanced molecular analysis and clinical decision support tools with the goals of improving research and care. 

Disease and infection can move through a hospital, including transmission from one patient to the next one to use the same room. A study, published in The Lancet, recently found that disinfection methods using ultraviolet (UV) light decrease the transmission of infectious diseases by 30 percent.

Patients’ lives can be changed by intensive, one-off procedures, but sometimes it’s the slower, incremental care from a primary care physician that can make the most difference.