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Can daratumumab be taken safely as a maintenance therapy? Will quadruplet therapy become more common in the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM)?

New data show that Medicaid enrollees with diabetes in Colorado have greater access to new medications and incur less associated costs compared with patients with Marketplace plans.

Cloth masks are not as effective at curbing the spread of COVID-19 as surgical masks; Martin Shkreli is banned from the pharmaceutical industry; as infections increase, more COVID-19 variants are likely.

Recent findings suggest that with more research, anomaly detection may be an option for general retinal disease screening and identification of novel presentations of common retinal diseases.

An abstract presented at the 63rd American Society of Hematology Meeting & Exposition found that the regimen was effective and that MRD could potentially be used as a biomarker to inform treatment duration.

Medicare Advantage plans must leverage data-driven insights and omnichannel telepharmacy software to guide meaningful interactions with high-risk members and boost Star Ratings performance.

An indirect assessment of the functioning of smooth muscle activity in the airways and gastrointestinal wall may help explain the shared pathophysiology that links these 2 common childhood ailments.

Outside of survival motor neuron (SMN) treatment, there are several alternatives used in cases where SMN approaches are not appropriate for treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Compared with the European Union, biosimilar use in the United States lags, and the US government, health systems, and medical associations all have a role to play.

Older patients with Parkinson disease (PD) were found to have a higher incidence of dementia compared with younger patients. However, the difference may have to do with different pathologies causing dementia in older and younger patients.

The research suggests a computed tomography-readable biomarker could help clinicians better understand individual cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Patients with comorbid psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis exhibited significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety vs those with psoriasis alone, whereas lifetime suicidality prevalence was not different between the 2 groups but still heightened compared with the general population.

Self-reported experiences among the patients showed that 76% of patients were extremely or very satisfied with their surgery and 58% of patients were satisfied with the appearance of their healed wound, despite a recurrence rate of 41%.

The eosinophilic esophagitis responded to treatment or resolved after the peanut oral immunotherapy stopped.

The randomized study consisted of an intervention delivered by general practitioners in the Republic of Ireland.

A study found that frailty reduced the likelihood of comprehensive disease control achievement by patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) being treated with a biologic agent.

Chronic cough can have a significant impact on patient quality of life, and recognizing it as an individual condition may help optimize its treatment.

The combined effects of obesity and malnutrition among individuals with heart failure were explored in this recent study from France, with the investigators noting that while malnutrition is a risk factor for adverse outcomes, obesity often confers a protective effect.

An increase in the use of comprehensive genomic profiling among patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was associated with additional life-years gained and a low-cost budget impact.

A recent review suggests that some genes may influence the severity of cognition impairment in Parkinson disease.

A survey of health care workers in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic’s peak identified associations between poor sleep and anxiety, acute stress, and depressive symptoms.

Senate panel votes to advance Robert Califf, MD, as the new head of the FDA; rising global temperatures spell increased health challenges; Omicron cases may be peaking in some Northeast cities.

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In this review, comparable positive outcomes were seen among persons living with HIV vs not living with HIV who underwent kidney or liver transplant.

Short-term exposure to several different types of air pollution was found to significantly increase disease severity in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

The high court voted to allow a vaccine requirement for health care workers that work in federally funded facilities to stand but, in a separate decision, ruled that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority in trying to place a similar requirement for private businesses.

A new review explored using partial tandem duplication levels from the MLL gene to monitor for minimal residual disease (MRD) status to predict disease relapse following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

New research identified risk factors for postoperative migraine and compared the incidence of migraine following general or neuraxial anesthesia.

Patients with atopic dermatitis were shown to be more likely to receive a COVID-19 diagnosis than the general population.

Robert Rifkin, MD, FACP, a medical oncologist and hematologist at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, outlines multiple myeloma research he hopes to see in the next 5 years.