Study findings do not support the addition of extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery to medical therapy for the treatment of patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic occlusion of the internal carotid artery or middle cerebral artery. ja.ma/3QQEoap

Hva skjer i Trondheim, egentlig? Kanskje NTNU-rektoren kan bli ny sjef for Helseplattformen? Eller hovedtrener i Rosenborg? Noe må skje, iallfall.

New paper out today in JAMA Internal Medicine. Prof Lisa Bero and I analyse how industry-funded authors respond to unfavourable findings on spinal cord stimulation. Some concerning patterns... #backpain #ChronicPain jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Looking forward to meet Scandinavian/Nordic neuro-oncology friends in April 🇫🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪 🇳🇴🇮🇸: cancerakademin.se/evenemang/snog… Present, interact, collaborate, socialize👩‍⚕️👨🏾‍🎓👩🏼‍💻👩🏾‍🔬👨🏻‍🏫at this exciting newly opened venue: strawberry.se/hotell/sverige…

Patients with evidence of microplastics and nanoplastics in carotid artery plaque, as compared with patients without, had a greater risk of adverse cardiovascular events at 34 months of follow-up. Read the full article: nej.md/3IrM6T8

CAR-T kills more people early Population was *NOT* heavily pretreated OS is not significantly improved Data are too immature for OS analysis What does the FDA do? 11-0! If anything, with emerging alternative options, CAR-T should move BACK in lines of therapy

8-3 vote on a IDA Cel Drug doesn't improve survival Clearly OS curves look like they will never be positive Tons of toxicity, early death Astonishingly low standards in Cancer medicine

Another example of medicalisation of suffering when a medical response is not the best response. (Shameful as well that basic data on age and gender are missing.) richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/is-…

Occasional reminder that there are no low energy, rich countries

Exciting News! Vorasidenib (brand name: Voranigo) has just been approved by the FDA for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with grade 2 astrocytoma or oligodendroglioma with an IDH1 or IDH2 mutation. Read more: braintumor.org/news/exciting-…

Is decompression alone non-inferior to decompression with instrumented fusion in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis? New randomised trial investigates Ivar Magne Austevoll bmj.com/content/386/bm…

🔍 New study reveals 78.9% of spinal cord stimulation RCTs reported conflicts of interest (COIs), with 76.3% having undisclosed COIs. This calls for stronger COI policies to uphold integrity in neuromodulation research. bit.ly/3A91nYd Ryan D'Souza, MD Johana Klasova

Progression-free survival - a valid endpoint in low grade glioma? #Vorasidenib #PFS ⁦Vinay Prasad MD MPH⁩ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39428639/

Den innbilte effekten av epidural ryggmargsstimulering | Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening tidsskriftet.no/2024/11/debatt…

The Greenlandic Prime Minister, Kim Kielsen, yesterday offered to buy the United States. "It was Leif the Lucky who discovered America and his father, Erik the Red, who discovered Greenland and settled here. Therefore, it is only natural for us to get the United States back,"

#OnlineFirst: Prognostic value of manual versus automatic methods for assessing extents of resection and residual tumor volume in glioblastoma. thejns.org/view/journals/….

Since legalization, new schizophrenia cases linked to heavy cannabis use have tripled. 🧵1/9

Thousands of Danish citizens are launching an effort to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Bare en påminnelse om at Norge har flere helsedirektører (333) enn intensivplasser (278). Helt hundre prosent fullstendig klin kokos. mn24.no/nyheter/i/76vW…