Allison Inserro

Children aged 6 to 11 years had reduced asthma exacerbations and improved lung function and asthma control when on dupilumab for a year.

Although advancements in cancer have been many, disease relapse is still a hurdle for many types of tumors and malignancies, and there is an urgent need to overcome tumor resistance.

Specifically, patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have a higher risk of developing heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction, according to new research.

Mild cognitive impairment has been proposed as a marker for the prodromal phase of Parkinson disease (PD), but little is known about its presentation in community-dwelling older adults.

The meta-analysis sought to clarify previous research, which has explored the idea that Parkinson disease (PD) is tied to inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, noting that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been implicated in neuroinflammation.

Blood eosinophil count is a promising biomarker and example of the pathway toward precision medicine in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), said Don Sin, MD, FRCP, MPH, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia and head of the Centre of Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital.

Although acute promyelocytic leukemia is highly treatable in early stages, the medication needed stop hematologic emergencies, all-trans retinoic acid, is often not available, a new study says.

The FDA decision was followed by a CDC advisory panel meeting Friday, and as expected, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, who has spoken in favor of booster shots, signed off on the plan.

The guideline reflects findings regarding confidence in evidence about how to care for the motor symptoms in patients with early Parkinson disease (PD), including the comparative efficacy of treatments as well as the comparative risk of adverse events.

A recent survey of oncologists in Australia showed that while most are integrating comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) into their practice, they lack a high level of confidence to communicate findings and to adjust patient treatment accordingly.

Recent research from the United Kingdom sought to understand more about factors that may impact the location of death for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and multiple sclerosis (MS).

Researchers conducted the study because although prior research has illustrated that elevated levels of iron in the blood from hereditary hemochromatosis can raise the risk of liver cancer, little is known about the effect of this condition in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

The share of patients meeting the definition of polypharmacy for the condition of overactive bladder declined from 2006 to 2017, but the phenomenon was still prevalent in women and patients in nursing homes, according to a recent study.

To avoid bankrupting health care, providers must carefully consider how they use biologics in patients with severe asthma, according to a presenter at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

While low- and middle-income countries remain desperate for a COVID-19 vaccine, the United States has entered a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, where antivaccine forces are exporting their antiscience beliefs to other countries, according to a keynote speaker at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC), an ultra-rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease, is heterogeneous and is often misdiagnosed or undiagnosed.

Daprodustat had no increased cardiovascular risk, compared with erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs), in treating anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who were on dialysis and not on dialysis.

With new and expected future options for treating atopic dermatitis (AD), including an injectable biologic and an oral small molecule inhibitor, which is preferred and which makes the most sense for patients?

Most early glucocorticoid treatment was targeted to patients with the most severe or active disease, according to study results from Canada.

Responses from the Fox Insight study describe how patients with Parkinson disease experience OFF periods as expressed in both motor and nonmotor symptoms.

In a long-awaited move, the FDA approved a pediatric dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years.

The annual report, from the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, the CDC, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, details US cancer trends.

Early diagnosis of Fabry disease is essential and that since symptoms depend on the type of disease and sex and age of the patient, a high-risk screening system should account for the age of the target population, the researchers said.

Risankizumab, a biologic, is used for psoriasis, but whether it can improve asthma control has been unclear.

The authors said long-term trends in Parkinson disease were previously unknown and that the findings are important to determining national health care priorities.

There are currently no FDA-approved treatments for refractory chronic cough or unexplained chronic cough. At the CHEST Annual Meeting 2021, attendees heard a readout from a durability study as well as pooled analyses from 2 phase 3 trials for gefapixant.

There has been a huge shift forward in the understanding of innate and adaptive immune mechanisms that provoke type 2 inflammation in atopic disease and eosinophilic esophagitis, according to a CHEST Annual Meeting 2021 speaker.

At a session of the CHEST Annual Meeting 2021, specialists reviewed the need for a thorough diagnosis to tell whether a patient's symptoms are caused by asthma or another pulmonary condition.

There was statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit vs sorafenib as a first-line treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in top-line results from a phase 3 trial.