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A new prospective cohort study suggests joint pain, rather than skin pain or disease severity, correlates with greater use of analgesics.

Department of Defense details plan on a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all active-duty personnel; United Nations climate change report addresses likelihood of future extreme weather events tied to global warming; Government Accountability Office report finds greater readmission risk in understaffed skilled nursing facilities.

Bobeck Modjtahedi, MD, elaborates on the importance of devising effective and convenient mechanisms for diabetic retinopathy screening.

Dawn Averitt opened the session, “Refocus on HIV: How Innovation in HIV Will Address Individual Patient Needs,” on day 1 of IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, which took place July 18-21.

We can safely delay excising in situ and early-stage melanomas while managing our patients’ care, noted Todd Schlesinger, MD, FAAD, director, Dermatology and Laser Center of Charleston and Clinical Research Center of the Carolinas.

Multidisciplinary care is an ideal way to management non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) because it is a complex disease associated with numerous comorbidities and necessitating lifestyle changes.

New research published in JAMA Network Open highlights one potential cause of migraine.

Camillo Ricordi, MD, FNAI, outlines the current status of islet transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes in the United States.

Anthony Fauci, MD, addresses potential vaccine mandates once COVID-19 vaccines gain full approval; the FDA issues finalized guidance on using a metastasis-free survival end point in clinical trials of patients with prostate cancer; spotlighting the threat of variant spread and mutation amid case surges nationwide.

The new report compared the benefits of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors with those of other glucose-lowering drugs and found lower rates of heart disease and mortality.

Clostridioides difficile, a bacteria that creates inflammation of the colon and causes symptoms like infectious diarrhea, is of particular risk among hospitalized patients.

Getting vaccinated is important to protect yourself, your family, and your community, says William "Andy" Nish, MD, an allergist and immunologist at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group.

FDA approves avalglucosidase alfa-ngpt (Nexviazyme) for the treatment of patients 1 year and older with late-onset Pompe disease.

The analysis included 64 cost-effectiveness analysis scenarios across more than 30 studies between 2009 and 2019, approximately half (53%) of which determined precision diagnostic testing to be cost-effective.

Relaxed social and professional constraints brought on by pandemic-related lockdowns benefitted the sleep schedules of patients with central hypersomnias.

Highlighting the latest ophthalmology-related news reported across MJH Life Sciences™.

Genomic sequencing was found to be an effective way to identify and evaluate the risk of pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants detected in pediatric patients with a range of cancer types.

Although body weight affected pharmacokinetics, the investigators said dosing adjustments based on weight were not warranted.

Individuals with a history of Plasmodium falciparum protozoan parasitic infection had a significantly increased long-term risk of developing heart failure but not myocardial infarction or cardiovascular or all-cause death.

The study, according to the researchers, is the first to demonstrate the potential use of major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) expression as a predictor of immunotherapy response in these patients.

Neal Dave, PharmD, the executive director of pharmacy at Texas Oncology, talks about the importance of conducting regular evaluations to ensure that prescribing the most cost-effective option, whether that be a biosimilar or the reference product.

According to researchers, the prevalence of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) identified by their study is consistent with, but on the lower end, of previously reported estimates.

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FDA is expected to recommend a plan on distribution of COVID-19 booster shots to immunocompromised Americans; California becomes the first state to issue a vaccine mandate for its health care workers; exploring the threat of COVID-19 infection in pediatric populations.

Taiwanese patients with uveitis were shown to be at greater risk of developing psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis than the general population, and hypertension, diabetes, and obesity were more prominent in these populations as well.

Regular use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or tricyclic or tetracyclic antidepressants was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes.

Researchers were able to use a next-generation sequencing assay to not only monitor minimal residual disease (MRD), but also to confirm diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which can present as more benign conditions early on.

The health insurance provider said it believes up to 20% of all cataract surgeries may be unnecessary, but ophthalmology groups disagree.

Patients with concurrent fatty liver disease and chronic hepatitis B exhibited higher cumulative rates of hepatitis B surface antigen seroclearance and lower cumulative rates of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) across a 10-year period.

This recent study compared orthostatic hypotension outcomes among 2 patient populations, both with chronic kidney disease (CKD), who were or were not living with diabetic nephropathy (DNP).