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Hormone therapy linked to tau accumulation in older women

AuntMinnie

The group analyzed flortaucipir (Tauvid, Avid Pharmaceuticals) PET scans acquired over a 3.5-year Participants were clinically unimpaired and between ages 51 and 89 at the beginning of the study. The researchers aimed to investigate whether menopausal HT use is associated with later-life tau accumulation.

Disease 162
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First Ever Investigational 18F-CD8 PET Radiopharmaceutical Aims to Predict and Monitor Early Response to Cancer Immunotherapies

Imaging Technology

The clinical trial will use this investigational radiopharmaceutical to help understand if patients have CD8+ T cells in their tumors and will, therefore, be more likely to respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, the main class of immunotherapies currently approved for use.