Maggie L. Shaw

The lack of approved treatments for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction has represented a significant unmet need for a condition that affects 50% of patients with heart failure, including large subgroups, such as older women.

There will be new ESC heart failure guidelines and presentation of data from EMPEROR-Preserved and EMPEROR-Pooled, noted Rudolf de Boer, MD, PhD, of University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.

Krajowe Centrum ds AIDS (National AIDS Center) in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 1993 as part of the country’s Ministry of Health. Its chief area of advocacy and outreach is access to antiretroviral treatment, in addition to new areas of focus that include prevention of sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis C virus.

For pediatric patients with T-cell origin lymphoblastic leukemia (T-LBL) with disease progression following second-line treatment, investigators found that the JAK1/2 pathway may be a new actionable target through treatment with ruxolitinib.

Comorbid cardiac dysfunction and intrarenal venous congestion were shown in this new study to have a negative correlation with survival outcomes among individuals with all levels of heart failure.

Actinic keratosis outcomes can be affected by several variables, and these lesions need to be treated to minimize progression risk, noted Todd Schlesinger, MD, FAAD, director, Dermatology and Laser Center of Charleston and Clinical Research Center of the Carolinas.

Asociaţia Română Anti-SIDA (ARAS; Romanian Association Against AIDS) was founded on April 10, 1992, just 3 years after the fall of communism, making it the first such organization in the country following a time when HIV was not officially acknowledged nor prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections discussed.

This new study from South Korea investigated if patients with cancer could be at potential greater risk of kidney failure and found connections with several cancer types.

Major polypharmacy use was found to increase risk of mortality between 22% and 135% for American adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in this subanalysis of data from the REGARDS study.

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.

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).

Collaborating with colleagues outside of dermatology helps to maximize the chances of skin cancer not coming back, especially in rare cases of noncontiguous tumors, noted Rajiv Nijhawan, MD, director of the UTSW High Risk Skin Cancer Transplant Clinic, in Dallas, Texas.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) effectively may help to revolutionize the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as optimizing understanding of the immune-mediated disease.

SisterLove Inc is a 32-year-old sexual reproductive health rights and justice organization with a core focus on HIV and sexually transmitted infections at the intersection of other challenges to women's sexual reproductive health and well-being.

The pandemic has exacerbated not only cardiovascular care, but also the mental health of patients, noted Mariana Garcia, MD, cardiology fellow in the Academic Clinical Investigator Pathway at Emory University and member of T32, Multidisciplinary Research Training to Reduce Inequalities in Cardiovascular Health (METRIC).

The cumulative effects of binge drinking and HIV on neurocognitive functioning were investigated among 4 groups of patients in this recent study from researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego.

People living with HIV have known greater rates of stroke, but the reason for that risk was the focus of an abstract presented last week at IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, which took place July 18 to 21.

We do not yet know the exact mechanism of action of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in heart failure (HF), but there are many exciting pssibilities, stated Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Providers need to put themselves in their patients' shoes and think about how they would like to receive services, emphasized Helen Bygrave, MD, chronic diseases advisor for the Médecins Sans Frontières’ (Doctors Without Borders) Access Campaign.

An abstract presented at IAS 2021, this year's virtual annual meeting of the International AIDS Society, addressed health care disparities that persist among persons living with HIV, with the ultimate goal being to improve health equity for this patient population.

Inconsistent application and measure of the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes definition of acute kidney injury (AKI) prompted this review, which used a measure of 75% agreement when defining consensus.

Patients should continue to be monitored while on treatment with SGLT2 inhibitors if they are being treated for comorbid type 2 diabetes and heart failure, emphasized Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, cardiologist, vice president of Research at Saint Luke's Health System.

Adults living with HIV sometimes get lost, and we need to optimize their outcomes, noted Allison Agwu, MD, ScM, FAAP, FIDSA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This new study from Japan investigated possible relationships between tubular injury, COVID-19 severity, and inflammatory markers with development of acute kidney injury.

The characteristics of the tumor and the presence of surgical fatigue can help determine patients’ candidacy for skin cancer surgery, explained Todd Schlesinger, MD, FAAD, director, Dermatology and Laser Center of Charleston and Clinical Research Center of the Carolinas.

By 2020, UNAIDS had hoped to meet the 90-90-90 goal it originally set in 2014: to have 90% of people living with HIV know their status, 90% be on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 90% have achieved viral suppression. The world fell short of meeting that goal, with just 81% knowing their positive status, two-thirds on ART, and 59% being virally suppressed.

According to this retrospective analysis of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) utilization rates in the United States, fewer than 20% of indicated users are taking the HIV preventive medication.

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to treat pain in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) was the focus of a recent literature review out of Italy.