Clinical Correlations

By Jacob Teperman, MD

Peer Reviewed

This month, James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the oncology world with their developments in immune checkpoint therapies.  Allison discovered CTLA-4 while Honjo was the first to work with PD-1.…

By Gibram Ramos Ortiz, MD

Peer Reviewed

Last week, lawmakers in Congress continued the fight against the opioid epidemic with a bipartisan bill dubbed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. The bill, which passed in the House of Representatives 393 to 8, offers major policy changes that include the following: creating a grant program for Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers, lifting restrictions on medications for opioid addiction, expanding access for first responders to Naloxone, making changes to Medicaid and Medicare to limit the over prescription of opioid painkillers, increasing penalties for drug manufacturers, and improving coordination of federal agencies to stop drugs like fentanyl crossing the border [1].…