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In an abstract presented at CHEST 2020, investigators revealed that the emotions that patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) regarding their illness are more complex than previously thought.

Friction of surgical instruments has the greatest association with incisional Descemet membrane detachment (DMD) during cataract surgery, according to results of a case series published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Compared with before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), study results show there was an increase in diagnoses of early-stage breast cancer among younger vs older minority women after the act.

Results from a phase 2 trial show PXL770 yielded consistently greater responses in high-risk patients with comorbid nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared with placebo.

Stark realities exposed by the pandemic have led some to advocate for redirecting resources to have the most impact on vulnerable populations.

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AstraZeneca has agreed to acquire Alexion Pharmaceuticals for $39 billion; CDC issues coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine guidance for those with a history of severe reactions to vaccines; 2.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses began traveling this past weekend to all 50 states.

The analysis, published in Cephalalgia, found that more than 50% of patients exhibited reversion from chronic migraine to episodic migraine after week 12 of the double-blind treatment phase.

Insurance status can influence an individual’s ability to access care, stated Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, associate professor at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy.

The authors wrote that in states that expanded Medicaid health insurance coverage in 2014, there was an increase of early-stage colon cancer diagnoses compared with states that did not implement expansion.

Scientists in Japan describe how a population of spinal cord astrocytes appear to have a role in producing pain hypersensitivity.

Patients with COVID-19 and end-stage renal disease were 11 times more likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients without kidney disease.

The findings help explain why costly CAR T-cell therapy does not work for some patients.

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has a host of benefits in treating and managing patients with early-stage disease, noted Alexey Aleshin, MD, senior medical director of Oncology at biotech giant Natera.

A review published earlier this year examines the rationale and evidence for using a multidrug approach in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

The study showed that that patients with higher disease activity had significantly lower levels of physical activity.

A variety of factors contributed to discontinuation rates in FIDELIO-DKD, said George Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine.

The genes are part of the family that cause cancer cells to grow.

The abstract, presented at the 2020 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition, found favorable overall survival and leukemia-free survival for these patients.

In its 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Final Rule, CMS announced it will delay its radiation oncology payment model from January 2020 until July 2021.

Among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the presence of anxiety was shown to have an inverse relationship with the severity of OSA, whereas symptoms of depression did not exhibit a similar relationship.

Despite heavy alcohol consumption being linked to increased incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and bleeding in patients with the condition, recommendations to control heavy drinking among this patient population are lacking.

The FDA late Friday issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from Pfizer and BioNTech, a day after an advisory panel recommended its use.

Recent years have seen calls for genetic testing for all patients with breast cancer. A session at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium reviewed the evidence for, and against, such testing.

Due to a lack of comprehensive data on health literacy among these patients, a team of investigators looked at its connection with their quality of life (QOL).

A funding dispute over how to account for a Veterans Affairs (VA) health care program is stalling deal to fund the government for another year; the Supreme Court rules in a case involving states and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs); the antiepileptic drug ezogabine lowered the pathologic excitability of cortical and spinal motor neuron cells, which have a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Hope Rugo, MD, director of Breast Oncology and Clinical Trials Education at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the benefits of oral paclitaxel in metastatic breast cancer.

Researchers identified new genetic associations that can predict individuals’ susceptibility to Takayasu arteritis, a rare type of vasculitis.

Gregory Vidal, MD, PhD, West Cancer Center and Research Institute, discusses the methodology of the Neat-HER study on neratinib in the extended adjuvant setting in HER2-positive breast cancer.

A spotlight poster discussion at SABCS highlighted topics in genomic testing, potentially game-changing therapies, and predictive biomarkers in HR-positive breast cancer.