Analysis finds significant spike in deaths among nursing home residents due to the Delta variant; hospitalization charges for patients with COVID-19 vary widely; spotlighting the threat of heat waves and extreme weather conditions for pregnant women.
The 2022 performance year’s Star Ratings require Medicare Advantage plans to take a more significant role in preventing readmissions.
Aligned with increases in costs for both airplane and helicopter air ambulance transport, average estimated air ambulance costs rose 76.4% from 2017 to 2020, according to Robin Gelburd, JD, president of FAIR Health.
David Julius, PhD, and Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, revealed the cellular mechanics of how sensations of touch translate into heat, cold, or pain. Their work has implications in everything from pain management to regulation of blood pressure to bladder control.
New research presented at the AHA Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021 showed that men aged 20 to 49 years and women 70 and older both had a greater risk of hypertension.
Despite excellent prognoses in low-risk patients with essential thrombocytopenia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV), knowledge gaps remain and novel, more tolerable therapies require reevaluation of treatment algorithms.
A review of current research and drug development in motor neuron disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy shows progress in the identification of treatment pathways and therapies.
This new study shows that consolidative radiation therapy may be of benefit to persons with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, both bulky and nonbulky disease.
The study aimed to identify the usefulness of telemonitoring to detect and manage acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).
Regulatory agencies have already begun calling companies out for misdirecting the public about the safety and efficacy of reference products in comparison to biosimilars, and it's important to continue to do so, said Kashyap Patel, MD, CEO of Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates.
Women with poor sleep quality were found to be at more than 2 times greater risk of obesity, with this association occurring only in those who did not meet recommended dietary standards.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits would increase Medicare’s direct spending, but the American Dental Association (ADA) is claiming reimbursement will not be enough to cover these costs
Dawn Averitt, founder of The Well Project and Women's Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS, has been living with HIV for 33 years.
In patients with BRAF-mutated melanoma, achieving a complete response and circulating tumor DNA negativity are promising prognostic markers.
Samples from 12 countries suggest shoe soles have a high positivity rate for Clostridium difficile, a strain primarily thought of as a hospital-associated infection.
This new analysis of 5-year data on a novel gene therapy from PTC Therapeutics shows both cognitive and motor function improvement in children with aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, a rare central nervous system disorder.
Bevacizumab biosimilar LY01008 demonstrated comparative safety, efficacy, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetic profiles to the reference product Avastin when combined with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases.
Secukinumab was associated with a high rate of short- and long-term drug survival in the treatment of patients with psoriasis, with factors such as obesity and prior biologic use linked to discontinuation of use.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was used to predict response of high-grade extrauterine serous carcinoma (HGSC) to adjuvant platinum chemotherapy.
New research presented at IDWeek 2021 presented data on the microbiota-based live biotherapeutic RBX2660 for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.
Results of a meta-analysis show migraineurs suffer from poorer sleep quality than healthy controls.
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) is a rare lysosomal storage disorder; a new report said that plasma lyso-sphingomyelin levels can be used to not only diagnose the rare disease but also predict severity and type.
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Consumer protections against surprise medical billing will go into effect January 1; Merck’s experimental oral COVID-19 antiviral drug shows efficacy against variants; an online questionnaire finds a 40% decrease in teen vaping from 2020 to 2021.
In an interview for ESC Congress 2021, Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, describes the treatment outlook for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
Investigators reported comprehensive genomic features of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma, potentially giving providers a better understanding of the molecular features associated with the disease.
Dosing from pivotal phase 3 trials of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is not optimal for real-world patients who experience different efficacy and adverse events (AEs).
Maralixibat is the first treatment approved for cholestatic pruritus in patients with Alagille syndrome who are 1 year or older.
