Rachel Lutz

Gathering the opinions of hospital pharmacists regarding the treatment of multiple sclerosis can be key for successful, multidisciplinary management of the disease, according to results from a focus group.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not an independent risk factor for metabolic disorders, according to a recent report.

Which pulmonary manifestations were present among patients with connective tissue disorder?

Prevention of acute kidney injury should be top of mind when discharging patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from the hospital, according to a recent study.

Over a 2-year study period, some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were able to reverse or improve their frailty status, investigators found. The condition is present in close to one-third of patients with COPD.

An efficient, concise patient questionnaire gathering health utilization information is effective for patients with multiple sclerosis, according to researchers who created one.

This study examined risk of exacerbation using a new predictive tool called COPD treatment ratio.

Overall, however, the FDA has reported 12 cases of dyshidrotic eczema caused by secukinumab, the investigators noted.

Investigators tracked time to treatment for 3 types of cancer in states that expanded Medicaid coverage on January 1, 2014, comparing rates before and after the expansion. Patients with new diagnoses of invasive breast, colon, or lung cancers aged 40 to 64 years were included in the analysis.

Screening mammography is important for reducing race/ethnicity-associated triple-negative breast cancer disparities among African American and white patients.

Treatment regimens of steroids and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs were effective in reducing the short-term death rate among patients with acute exacerbation of interstitial lung disease (AE-ILD), a complication of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.

Screening mammography is important for reducing race- and ethnicity-associated triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) disparities among African American and white American patients. At present, there is a 40% higher mortality rate among African American women compared with white American women.

When time to first treatment ranged from 31 to 90 days for patients with breast cancer, doctors had more time for extensive diagnostic workups without compromising survival rates.

By age 3, children involved in the survey developed wheeze, atopy, or asthma—possibly linked to their parents’ use of common household cleaning products.

Interstitial lung disease requires a multidisciplinary clinical approach, though little is known about effective therapeutic treatments.