Highlights from SABCS 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you the highlights and insights from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2025, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Amy Comander, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, MSCP, highlights presentations at this year’s meeting. :26 Jun J. Mao, MD, MSCE, discusses results from a phase 2 trial surrounding acupuncture for breast cancer. 1:50 Amanda M. Woodworth, MD, FACS, CPE, describes a digital toolkit for advancing risk-informed breast cancer screening. 4:41 Read the full coverage here: Disclosures: Comander reports no relevant financial...
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Highlights from NEI 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 Neuroscience Educational Institute (NEI) Annual Congress. David W. Goodman, MD, LFAPA, discusses his presentation about ADHD in adults including diagnosis, treatment and the current challenges. :22 Katherine Dahlsgaard, PhD, ABPP, talks about her presentations on behavioral interventions for sleepy adolescents as well as the challenges physicians face in prescribing psychiatric medicines. 5:43 Kari L. Franson, PharmD, PhD, BCPP, FNAP, highlights her presentations on the current status of prescription digital...
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Highlights from GAPNA 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA) Annual Conference. Kimberly Posey, AGPCNP-BC, DNP, PhD, GS-C, discusses the purpose for the meeting, and highlights from this year’s conference. :19 George Peraza-Smith, DNP, A-GNP-C, GNP-BC, GS-C, CNE, FAANP, immediate past president of GAPNA, provides an overview on popular presentations from the meeting, and goals for the future of the organization. 12:25 Disclosures: Healio was unable to confirm relevant disclosures at the time of publication.
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Highlights from ASRS 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Andrew G. Lee, MD, discusses when retina experts should refer patients to a neuro-ophthalmologist. 0:29 Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS, provides an overview of lessons learned from two complex surgical cases. 1:52 Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS, overviewed key findings from the Global Trends in Retina Survey. 5:16 Michael O’Rouke talks collaborating with Boehringer Ingelheim to develop...
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Highlights from ASCO Annual Meeting 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Chinmay Jani, MD, discusses findings highlighting how alcohol-related cancer mortality has risen sharply over the past few decades. :19 Rachel I. Vogel, PhD, provides and overview on factors contributing to the time burden cancer care places on patients. 3:02 Alexander D. Sherry, MD, discusses how improvements in OS or quality of life after phase 3 oncology trials are based on improvements in unvalidated alternative...
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Highlights from AAN 2025
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting. Mary A. O'Neal, MD, FAAN, and Ratna K. Bhavaraju-Sanka, MD, FAAN, discuss their efforts to address the lack of access to neurological care by partnering with primary care. :34 Merit E. Cudkowicz, MD, MSc, FAAN, speaks with Healio about being honored The American Academy of Neurology’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work in ALS research. 2:50 Read the full coverage here: Source: Grossberg G, et al. Efficacy and safety of AXS-05 in Alzheimer's...
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Highlights from ASH 2024, Leukemia Edition (Continued)
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you expert insights from the ASH Annual Meeting and Exhibition with a focus on leukemia, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Aaron T. Gerds, MD, MS, discusses how socioeconomic disparities affect access to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for people with acute myeloid leukemia. :24 Hua Zhang, MD, PhD, reviews findings of bicistronic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy induced durable response for most children with relapsed or refractory B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 6:29 Moath Albliwi, MD,...
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Highlights from SABCS 2024
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you the highlights and insights from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2024, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Judy Garber, MD, MPH, chief of the division of cancer genetics and prevention at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reviews results of the OlympiA trial. :25 Raza Hoda, MD, a pathologist at Cleveland Clinic and assistant professor of pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, discusses results from the DESTINY-Breast04 and DESTINY-Breast06 trials. 1:55...
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Highlights from ASH 2024
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you expert insights from the ASH Annual Meeting and Exhibition, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting. Gwen L. Nichols, MD, reviews a panel discussion on how hematologists and oncologists can best address patients’ concerns as AI’s role in medicine invariably expands. :24 Thomas G. Knight, MD, addresses financial toxicity for people with blood cancer. 6:29 Charles S. Abrams, MD, discusses results of the HIBISCUS trial and its implications for vaso-occlusive events. 16:30 Read the full coverage here: Disclosures: Abrams...
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Highlights from AAO 2024
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In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2024 Meeting with a focus on AMD and retina. David A. Eichenbaum, MD, discusses results from a phase 1 trial investigating axitinib for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration. :28 Douglas Love discusses the company’s phase 3 program in geographic atrophy. 2:37 Pravin U. Dugel, MD, discusses the next steps for the phase 3 SOL-1 and SOL-R studies. 3:54 Jeremiah Brown, MS, MD, presents results from the phase 4 Elevatum trial investigating faricimab for diabetic...
info_outlineIn this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2025 American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting.
Andrew G. Lee, MD, discusses when retina experts should refer patients to a neuro-ophthalmologist. 0:29
Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS, provides an overview of lessons learned from two complex surgical cases. 1:52
Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS, overviewed key findings from the Global Trends in Retina Survey. 5:16
Michael O’Rouke talks collaborating with Boehringer Ingelheim to develop extended-release therapies for ophthalmic diseases. 8:17
Jay S. Duker, MD, discusses EyePoint Pharmaceuticals’ second phase 3 trial of Duravyu in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration. 11:08
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Long-term benefits seen with Gore-Tex sutures for scleral fixation of IOLs
Source: Acaba-Berrocal L, et al. Long-term outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy and polytetrafluoroethylene sutured scleral-fixated intraocular lenses. Presented at: American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting; July 30-Aug. 2, 2025; Long Beach, California.
Study supports Iluvien as ‘long-acting option’ in diabetic macular edema
Source: Singer MA, et al. NEW DAY: Study design, study sites, patient enrollment: A study of intravitreal Iluvien (fluocinolone acetonide) implant as baseline therapy in patients with early diabetic macular edema (DME) (NEW DAY). Presented at: American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting; July 30-Aug. 2, 2025; Long Beach, California.
Disclosures:
Duker reports being president and CEO of EyePoint Pharmaceuticals.
Garg reports no relevant financial disclosures.
Lee reports no relevant financial disclosures.
O’Rourke reports being CEO of Re-Vana Therapeutics.