Hayden E. Klein

Wearing a physical activity tracker and receiving personalized exercise feedback was linked to better results in exercise performance, weight loss, and other health outcomes among individuals with obesity.

Investigators conducted a review of 21 studies on the effects of a gum disease treatment on various rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity measures.

Patient confidentiality is a major reason why minors do not seek out prevention, testing, and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.

Use of prototype app UpSilent resulted in clinically meaningful changes in tinnitus and superior outcomes across most measures after 12 weeks compared with popular app White Noise.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disease flare was significantly longer in children with enthesitis-related arthritis and juvenile psoriatic arthritis treated with secukinumab compared with placebo.

Black and Latinx transgender women expressed high levels of HIV risk perception at the individual and community level, both of which played major roles in their decision to start and continue pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

The guidance focuses on treatment with tecovirimat, pre-exposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis with the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, and infection control among persons living with HIV (PLWH).

A study found cystatin C, renal resistance index, and urinary kidney injury molecule-1 were significantly associated with risk of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Children whose parents were more engaged with an intervention focused on obesity saw greater results compared with children whose parents were less engaged.

While past research suggests patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk for dementia, a Mayo Clinic study claims this is not the case.

Researchers found automated foot strike detection is viable for smartphone-based fall risk classification in patients with lower limb amputations.

Value management, theranostics, clinical trial access, and a mobile pharmacy are major innovations being integrated into independent community oncology practices, as highlighted at the Quality Cancer Care Alliance Summer 2022 National Leadership Summit.

After 2 years of follow-up, more than a quarter of patients who used a digital therapeutic delivering cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia achieved insomnia remission.

The summary includes expanded indications for certain vaccines, approaches for live-attenuated vaccines, and medication management around the time of vaccination for patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

According to the review, the most important novel developments were related to the repositioning of old drugs in the context of treat-to-target (T2T) therapy and new long-term safety information on Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors.

The National Health Service (NHS) in England has made the Dexcom ONE real-time Continuous Glucose Monitoring System available by prescription to patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Researchers developed a framework to pull high-resolution digital phenotypes from wearable devices and use them to predict the risk of cardiometabolic disease.

New study findings show suboptimal HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing rates among sexual and gender minority individuals in the state, contrary to CDC guidelines.

Patients with gout who experienced a heart attack or stroke were twice as likely to have experienced a gout flare within the past 60 days compared with patients with gout who did not experience either event.

The mobile intervention, based on the Integrated Theory of Health Behavior Change, significantly improved self-management behaviors among patients with tuberculosis (TB).

Interviews conducted with patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) revealed 6 important aspects of daily life that are rarely measured in RA research.

Personalizing treatment for narcolepsy requires shared decision-making between patients and clinicians to understand the most important symptoms that need to be treated and the right therapy, said Michael Thorpy, MD, director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center and professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Elaine Goodman, MD, MBA, clinical lead for population health management at Mass General Brigham, explains how patient access and engagement with health technologies, and the ways these technologies are developed, has evolved.

Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure who are Black or female were less likely to receive a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation compared with White and male beneficiaries.

While a 1-year course of methotrexate improved physical function, pain, morning joint stiffness, and joint inflammation, it did not prevent the development of clinical arthritis.

Developments in health care and research warrant updates to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants who are exposed to HIV but uninfected.

A review found rheumatic conditions cause 22.2% of global cases of fever and inflammation of unknown origin.

In 22 countries supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, HIV testing and case identification among children and adolescents decreased 40.1% and 29.4%, respectively.

Elaine Goodman, MD, MBA, clinical lead for population health management at Mass General Brigham, talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic should impact developments in digital health management going forward.

Many algorithms claiming to identify melanoma better than dermatologists are trained on retrospective datasets, which is not reflective of real-world clinical practice, said Jonathan Kentley, MBBS, MSc, research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.