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Semaglutide treatment was found to reduce healthcare costs significantly for patients with overweight or obesity and who had either heart failure or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to studies presented Nov. 3-6 at the Obesity Society's annual Obesity Week conference and…

Researchers are starting to learn more about a rare but deadly side effect of immunotherapy cancer treatment, according to a study published Nov. 6 in Nature. 

Breast arterial calcifications are benign calcium buildups that in mammograms look like white parallel lines. Measuring these calcifications may improve cardiovascular risk in women, according to a study published Sept. 27 in JACC: Advances.

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Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center had the lowest rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections for hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System.

By 2050, the number of worldwide cancer cases and deaths will rise to 35.3 million and 18.5 million, respectively, according to a Nov. 5 study published in JAMA Open Network. 

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