Hayden E. Klein

Susan Redline, MD, MPH, professor of sleep medicine and epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gives a preview of her SLEEP 2022 keynote and discusses her 30 years of sleep epidemiology advocacy.

Research supports that aquatic exercise is effective at reducing pain and disease activity and improving physical function, although it is unclear whether it is more effective than any other form of therapy for inflammatory arthritis (IA).

Using a 6-month lagged CD4/CD8 ratio, researchers found a ratio of 0.30 was associated with a 24% increased risk of any incident cancer among people living with HIV, compared with a ratio of 0.80.

A letter from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) called for drug pricing reforms, deeming them necessary to ensure the health of patients and sustainability of health care systems.

In 2018, annual health care expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use totaled $15.1 billion or $2024 per person, according to researchers.

Steven Yeh, MD, professor of ophthalmology at the Truhlsen Eye Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, talks about what he sees in the future of suprachoroidal administration and other unmet needs in ophthalmology.

Prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) reSET-O, used for opioid use disorder, had similar engagement levels across a broad range of geographic regions in the United States, including both urban and rural areas.

At Digestive Disease Week 2022, John M. DeWitt, MD, professor of medicine, Indiana University Health, explains his findings on the diagnosis and management of achalasia in 2022 and how the COVID-19 pandemic affected these trends.

At Digestive Disease Week 2022, Sravanthi Parasa, MD, gastroenterologist at Swedish Gastroenterology, talks about how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in gastroenterology and what challenges it may pose for clinicians.

Investigational microbiota-based live therapeutic RBX2660 was found to be safe and effective at reducing Clostridioides difficile (C difficile) recurrence, said Paul Feuerstadt, MD, assistant clinical professor at Yale University School of Medicine, gastroenterologist at PACT Gastroenterology Center, at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Outcomes were worse for patients hospitalized once for Clostridioides difficile infection compared with alternative reasons for hospitalization, but the risk of adverse outcomes did not seem to increase with recurrent admissions for C difficile, explained Preethi Venkat, MD, second-year internal medicine resident at University of California, San Diego, at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Because symptoms are similar to those of gastroesophageal reflux disease, achalasia is often misdiagnosed, explained Eric Low, MD, MPH, gastroenterology fellow at University of California, San Diego at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

The accumulation of screening and treatment disparities are contributing to colorectal cancer incidence and mortality disparities, said Folasade (Fola) May, MD, PhD, gastroenterologist, health services researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Researchers also found that 95% of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory infection episodes and more than 97% of RSV-attributable deaths were among children in low– and middle-income countries.

The value of multicancer early detection tests is based not only on cost, but cost in relation to the outcomes, said Patricia Deverka, MD, MS, senior researcher, deputy director at the Center for Translational and Policy Research and Precision Medicine, University of California San Francisco.

Adolescent girls and young women in South Africa were more likely to practice favorable sexual behaviors if they accessed DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe)–like interventions such as school-based HIV prevention and HIV testing.

Latha Alaparthi, MD, gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology Center of Connecticut, talks about lessons she has learned from being a woman in a medical leadership position and what she hopes to teach others at the Women in GI Luncheon at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022.

The mobile app Color Me Healthy uses gamified elements to help children with cancer self-report their symptoms throughout treatment; all study participants reported symptoms at least once.

While current data on medical cannabinoids in rheumatology is limited, findings suggest that adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions outweigh the benefits.

Research shows that long-term antiretroviral therapy (ART) can improve the overall health and survival of mothers living with HIV and their children who have been exposed to HIV.

Researchers found that the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) predictor could more accurately predict rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relapse than logistic regression and random forest.

The US Preventive Services Task Force has never evaluated a multicancer screening test for endorsement, which may make the process even longer, said Patricia Deverka, MD, MS, senior researcher, deputy director at the Center for Translational and Policy Research and Precision Medicine, University of California San Francisco.

After the Oncology Care Model (OCM) expires at the end of June, Tennessee Oncology will take what it learned from the model and apply it to commercial value-based care arrangements and potentially the next Medicare model, said Leah Owens, DNP, RN, executive director of care transformation at Tennessee Oncology.

Oral care decreased both the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the length of stay, as well as the amount of time of mechanical ventilation.

Male sex, older age, lower socioeconomic status, higher comorbidity score, and having an older or male rheumatologist were associated with the reduced likelihood of continuing with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment.

Good telehealth is not about the technology, but rather the quality of service from the licensed professional, said Geoffrey Boyce, CEO of Array Behavioral Care.

According to the authors, sex-based differences may be a cause of higher rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity.

Hilary Baldwin, MD, medical director, Acne Treatment and Research Center, discusses new therapies for acne and unmet needs for the condition.

New research shows that cortisol and cortisone levels in the hair of people living with HIV were negatively associated with CD4 count, but not with HIV viral load.

Among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical remission, patient-physician discordance when assessing disease activity may be associated with the inability to achieve remission.