Independent FDA panel advises that the next round of COVID-19 vaccines only target XBB strains; the American Medical Association (AMA) says that only using body mass index (BMI) is not enough to evaluate health; teens with severe obesity look to controversial surgery and weight-loss drugs.
Randomized controlled trials had lower rates of success, but microbiota restoration still out-performed antibiotics.
Past research shows no meaningfully increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with more common chronic inflammatory skin diseases.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was detected easiest when using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests in a pediatric population.
A study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting found practice- and provider-level racial and ethnic inequities in rates of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated in the community setting.
The health plans, which have announced their intent to join forces, retired $345,000 in debt in the areas they serve.
Most people with health insurance coverage experienced health coverage problems in the past 12 months; oncologists are pressing lawmakers to implement long-term solutions to chemotherapy shortages; the nonprofit Human Rights Watch is calling out US hospitals for forcing people into debt.
Misdiagnosis was common in these patients, and mean time to diagnosis was around 5 years.
Technical, economic, and political factors led to notable disparities between high-income and low-and middle-income countries, an international assessment shows.
However, overall fertility rates of patients with psoriasis were similar to national fertility trends, authors found.
More geographically and racially diverse population cohorts are needed to determine heritability risk in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRS).
Michael Thompson, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, gave insight into the themes of the upcoming National Alliance Leadership Summits.
A new study found that adolescents with short-term exclusive cigarette use had a higher risk of incident asthma after 5 years of follow-up.
Susan Escudier, MD, FACP, vice president of value-based and quality programs for Texas Oncology, discusses how collaboration between oncologists and primary care physicians (PCPs) can improve patient satisfaction and outcomes.
The study also highlighted disparities in accurate diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
In this interview from SLEEP 2023, Dayna Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS, addresses the various pathways through which cardiovascular health is adversely affected by suboptimal sleep health.
HHS and CMS extended postpartum coverage in New York through Medicaid and CHIP for an entire year; a minimum of 1.7 million Americans use health sharing plans, even though they lack protections; Pfizer expects pediatric syphilis drug Bicillin L-A to experience a shortage.
The pharmacy benefit manager SmithRx has announced that through a partnership with the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, it will offer Yusimry, an adalimumab biosimilar, for less than 90% of the cost of the reference product, Humira.
Both genera and regional anesthesia can be safely used in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
The 68-year-old patient had multiple myeloma and breast cancer.
The incidence rate of melanoma in situ (MIS) has sharply risen since 1975.
Among a small cohort of healthy Korean male volunteers, evogliptin combined with empagliflozin or dapagliflozin had no significant effects on the pharmacokinetics (PK) of each drug.
Investigators wanted to answer the question, “Is incident myocardial infarction associated with cognitive function changes compared with pre-MI cognition trajectories?”
Biden administration finalizes a deal on covering preventive care despite legal battle; CMS prepares safety net hospital reimbursement plans; over 1 million Americans have been dropped from Medicaid coverage
Fundus photographs of eyes with diabetic macular edema (DME) could be used to estimate best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) when artificial intelligence examines the pictures.
Using race-neutral rather than race and ethnicity-specific reference equations to interpret pulmonary function tests (PFTs) increased the number of Black individuals considered to have respiratory impairments, suggesting that race and ethnicity-specific equations may reinforce health disparities.
This international study looked at educational outcomes among adolescents with eczema as influenced by their quality of life living with the chronic inflammatory skin condition.
A longer length of hospitalization suggests how racial disparities may affect minority patients with severe respiratory illnesses.
Nirsevimab was unanimously recommended by the FDA Advisory Committee for immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants.
Mark Fendrick, MD, and Nicholas Bagley, JD, discuss how the ruling in Braidwood v Becerra could affect availability of preventive care.
