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A repeat PSMA PET/CT scan detected recurrent disease in more than half of prostate cancer patients whose initial scan was negative. Findings altered management in nearly half of patients, particularly those with oligometastatic recurrence.

Adjunctive cognitive behavioral therapy reduced depressive symptoms and ideation scores versus treatment as usual in a 93-patient feasibility trial of esketamine for major depression with suicidal ideation.

“A fully oral, inexpensive NMDA-AMPA modulation strategy may offer a practical alternative for patients with the bipolar obsessive-compulsive disorder phenotype who respond poorly to conventional approaches.” — Ngo Cheung, MBBS