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Osimertinib (Tagrisso; AstraZeneca) now has shown a statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit in both the early adjuvant and late-stage metastatic settings.

Using the DataDerm database has uncovered disparities in prescription patterns, but it’s still early in the process of understanding why those disparities might exist, said Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, and Ramiro Rodriguez, MD, both of University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Body image dissatisfaction was shown to be the strongest unique contributor for poor quality of life in patients with epilepsy, signaling the potential need for targeted psychological treatments.

Age-specific risk factors for asthma-like symptoms were identified in the first, second, and third years of life, a new study finds.

Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction has previously been linked to symptoms and mortality in pulmonary hypertension (PH), as well as in other conditions, and RV function plays an important role in disease risk and potentially in intensification of pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment.

Once thought of as the result of an imbalance in bodily humors, inflammatory skin diseases are now understood to arise from types of immune responses, opening the door to targeted therapies and personalized medicine, according to speakers at the American Academy of Dermatology 2023 Annual Meeting.

Investigators said the Mortality in TTP Score (MITS) was effective at characterizing the risk of death in patients hospitalized with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).

Treatable skin diseases in the transgender population can be overlooked and not managed, despite how they can negatively impact quality of life, according to researchers.

Study results indicates that the injectable antiretroviral therapy can benefit patients who are historically underserved and may face treatment barriers, including those with mental illness.

Polypharmacy was significantly higher in patients with psoriatic arthritis when compared with controls, according to a new study.

Lower levels of certain biomarkers were predictive of treatment response for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) at day 28, investigators found.

Recognizing markers like atonia index during wakefulness (WAI) that are not present in other hypersomnias might help in the diagnosis of narcolepsy.

Preventing tobacco use has saved Californians billions, according to recent research.

Biosimilars may not be perfect, but they are, at the very minimum, helping to make cancer therapies a little bit more accessible, said Andre D. Harvin, PharmD, MS, executive director of pharmacy, oncology, Cone Health.

Speakers at the American Academy of Dermatology 2023 Annual Meeting highlighted the potential of DataDerm to tell the story of dermatological care in the United States, but some also cautioned that the registry only reflects those who have access to care in the first place.

The Chinese report details the case of a 6-year-old female patient with type 1 SMA who was successfully weaned off prolonged invasive ventilation after beginning treatment with nusinersen.

A recent study found that microbiome-based biomarkers may be useful in predicting patient responses to CAR T-cell therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Extended follow-up data from the ProtecT trial highlight the importance of weighing the risks associated with radical treatment versus active surveillance for newly diagnosed localized prostate cancer.

Investigators of this study noted the need for more data on risks of malignancies among patients who have atopic dermatitis (AD), with the chronic skin condition already having significant associations with nonmelanoma skin cancer, lymphoma, keratinocyte carcinoma, and pancreatic and kidney cancers.

Different methods of DNA collection and needle sizes led to varied next-generation sequencing success rates among patients with lung cancer in a recent study.

A symposium at the American Academy of Dermatology 2023 Annual Meeting convened speakers who presented current data on the use of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors in dermatology, including in atopic dermatitis and vitiligo.

It's harder for younger children to deal with the complexities of managing type 1 diabetes (T1D), so a delayed diagnosis even by a few years is a big deal, said Kevan Herold, MD, professor of immunobiology and medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and incoming medical director at Thyme Care, explained Thyme Care’s value-based care (VBC) system in oncology and the benefits of care navigation.

The high court in North Dakota voted to protect abortion in that state; an outside panel of FDA expert advisors voted to support a full approval for Paxlovid; Sanofi follows competitors' price caps for insulin.

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The new report suggests patients with acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody titers above 8.11 nmol/L were at higher risk of conversion.

Stephen M. Schleicher, MD, MBA, Tennessee Oncology and Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Board of Directors member, discusses what brings him back to the Community Oncology Conference year after year.

AMCP 2023, taking place March 21-24 in San Antonio, Texas, will feature 6 educational tracks, 3 keynote addresses, and an estimated 4000 managed care professionals in attendance.