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Investigators explored the associations between body weight and pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.

Two oncologists dive into the reasons behind physician hesitancy and unwillingness to prescribe biosimilars to patients with cancer and make suggestions on how to increase confidence in these agents.

Results of a UK Biobank study outline the association between migraine and several gastrointestinal disorders.

With nearly all parts of the country seeing a steady increase in COVID-19 infection, health care and medical groups are calling for mandatory vaccinations of their staff, and on Monday, the Department of Veterans Affairs, New York City, and California also announced vaccine requirements for workers.

Links between COVID-19 brain fog and risk of Alzheimer disease; cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris International discusses plans to stop selling cigarettes in the United Kingdom; COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects are more likely in people previously infected with the virus.

About 4 in 10 patients with chronic kidney disease will have “early rapid decline,” a trajectory more likely if the patient also has diabetes.

Clinicians should avoid prescribing acid-suppression medications in general, and especially proton-pump inhibitors, to patients with Clostridioides difficile infection, according to the study.

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.

Viral infections can induce asthma exacerbations, but a report finds the inflammation itself can also have an impact on the infection.

The issue of reactivating hepatitis B and other chronic viruses such as herpes zoster after treatment for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) is an emerging issue in hematologic malignancies, due to the power of newer therapies.

Many respiratory viruses demonstrated atypical activity levels as compared with previous rates of activity during pre-pandemic seasonality, the CDC said this week.

Anne Marie Morse, DO, pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist, Geisenger, speaks on early data findings of the Wake Up and Learn program which suggested a greater risk of sleep pathology among adolescents than typically observed.

Here are some of the latest developments in multiple sclerosis (MS) from our sister publication, NeurologyLive®.

Compared with chemotherapy, patients receiving avelumab or another immunotherapy had higher response rates and higher rates of survival in locally advanced Merkel cell carcinoma (laMCC) and metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (mMCC).

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Mississippi's attorney general asks the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade; the Biden administration releases more COVID-19 funds to combat the delta variant; Missouri Supreme Court rules to expand health care access.

Speakers at the Advanced Topics for Oncology Pharmacy Professionals Summit discussed financial toxicity in health care, how it particularly impacts patients with cancer, and how to address the issue with patients and the health system.

Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, an oncologist and hematologist, compares the uptake of filgrastim biosimlars with pegfilgrastim biosimilars.

Dynamic measurable residual disease (MRD) can be used to optimize postremission treatment for young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Results of a survey study underscore the variables considered most and least important to patients and general practitioners when it comes to migraine treatments.

Patients who were tumor necrosis factor inhibitor naive generally had better responses to secukinumab compared with those who were inadequate responders—but both groups benefited

The gold standard for diagnosing liver disease is a liver biopsy, but researchers are seeking a simpler way to identify those at risk, given the silent nature of early disease and rising incidence around the globe.

Investigators detected potential predictors reducing a patients’ ability to receive an early diagnosis for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including poorer lung function, lower education levels, and residing in a rural area.

Across 19 patients, 73% developed grade 3 or 4 neutropenia, significantly higher than the incidence observed in the phase 3 trial examining the combination for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

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.

A study abstract presented at the European Hematology Association annual meeting found that, in a real-world setting, ruxolitinib resulted in prolonged survival among patients receiving the treatment following an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant.

The federal government requires insurers to cover PrEP; Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and pharmaceutical wholesalers agree to settle opioid crisis lawsuits; NYC health care workers will be required to receive a vaccine or weekly tests for COVID-19.

The manipulation of key enzymes through methods of gene therapy was shown to provide protection against vision loss from multiple retinal conditions.