Notable Medical Findings of 2015

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58 points·prostoalex··6 comments

I'm glad this article calls out the CLL drug ibrutinib. You hear a lot of people say "why aren't we making progress in treating cancer?". Well we are, ibrutinib is a great example.

The clinical trial data I looked at a couple year ago is a little fuzzy, but basically if you had CLL and the 17p deletion, your chance of being alive after 2 years was ~25% (using the standard of care before ibrutinib). In the ibrutinib clinical trial, 95%+ of 17p CLL patients were still alive after 2 years.

A massive jump forward in the treatment of cancer.

Not to mention CAR T-Cell for ALL. And anti-PD(L)1 for melanoma. Hemonc is truly innovating like no other field in medicine at the moment...

> we should rely on more than chance in such settings—for instance, by using smartphones

What teaching CPR in mid and high school repetitively every year, even basic stuff in elementary?

I have been introduced to sports I knew I would hate, hated and still hate in phys ed, they tryed to teech me spelling, etc... It wouldn't add much to the curriculum to add CPR but could have a major impact.

"Where is the nearest AED" would be helpful, too. (If you have an office with more than X people, or any establishment open to the public, and you don't have an AED, you should reconsider. More of an issue with middle aged/older people, but there are heart attacks in even healthy young people, and not all people are healthy.)

CPR was a mandatory component of phys ed during my high school years, and the good news is that more and more places are making it mandatory:

http://schoolcpr.com/about/states-where-cpr-training-is-mand...

This is great! I hope it spreads to other countries.

Was it just a one time thing before graduation? Or re-taught every year?

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