Julia Bonavitacola

When compared with patients on traditional Medicare, patients on Medicare Advantage had less intensive home health care, even if they had similar needs.

Men who have sex with men who are living with HIV tend to have fewer depressive symptoms if they report better family functioning.

The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) will host its annual conference in San Diego from March 8 to March 11, 2024, which will include sessions about Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, biologics, and other treatments for skin disorders.

Outcomes for patients with diabetic macular edema did not have treatment with intravitreal dexamethasone implants affected by their glycosylated hemoglobin.

A nurse-led strategy for people living with HIV was able to reduce both blood pressure and cholesterol in a 12-month period.

Patients who had surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) were able to avoid anastomotic or rectal stump leaks by using a Heald anal stent.

The higher burden of comorbidities in patients with both HIV and pulmonary hypertension (PH) led to worse outcomes, including mortality.

Patients with HIV who have suppressed viral loads and pre-existing resistance will be able to use bictegravir with this FDA approval.

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) who were also frail were found to have worse survival when compared with patients who weren’t frail.

Glaucoma specialists were outperformed by a large language model chatbot when it came to diagnostic and treatment accuracy in glaucoma cases.

A review found that CD4/CD8 ratio could be used as a prognostic marker for mortality in patients with HIV, though future studies need to be done to confirm these findings.

Esotropia and exotropia could have shared genetic risk factors based on findings that genetif duplications on chromosomes were risk factors for the diseases.

Intensive surveillance after resection on patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) was less cost-effective in stage I but most cost-effective in stage II and III disease.

Different levels of risk for HIV exist in the different subtypes of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Pregnant women who are living with HIV are underrepresented in studies on the efficacy of vaccines, leading to difficult policy decisions for this population.

Combining interventions to encourage screenings for colorectal cancer (CRC) and social determinants of health (SDOH) was found to improve screening rates in CRC without decreasing rates of screenings for SDOH.

Although corticosteroids were found to immediately improve best-corrected visual acuity and central macular thickness, anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapies had significant long-term advantages when treating diabetic macular edema.

At an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event held in Phoenix, Arizona, experts from Banner Health and Aetna discussed how health inequities and social determinants of health can affect primary care in patients with any type of insurance.

A recent study found that transgender and gender non-binary adolescents and young adults had limited knowledge and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Emergent colorectal cancer (CRC) resection was found to be more prevalent in patients who identified as non-White.

Strategies used during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure continuity of care in people living with HIV can be used as a paradigm of adaptability during unexpected crises.

Several risk factors put patients with colorectal cancer at increased risk of anastomotic leakage after elective surgery.

Medically integrated dispensaries could be in violation of the Medicare Physician Self-Referral Law, known as the Stark Law, due to an interpretation of the law released in 2021.

Although rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) are higher than previous estimates, OUD was relatively stable or decreasing over time in patients with HIV.

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) could participate in telehealth and e-health interventions to promote their sexual health, although efficacy of these interventions needs to be further studied.

Children and adolescents were at higher risk for myopic maculopathy progression if they had worse best-corrected visual acuity and longer axial length, among other risk factors.

People living with HIV reported feeling inferiority due to HIV and gloomy feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers linked internalized HIV stigma to depressive symptoms.

Separate machine learning models were able to effectively predict both the length of hospital stay and the risk of prolonged hospitalization in people living with HIV.

A multidisciplinary approach is needed in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who contract COVID-19, as they may experience worse outcomes.