Myelodysplastic syndrome has a variety of clinical presentations, including bone marrow fibrosis. Previously, the presence of fibrosis has not been considered in disease risk scoring in MDS, but recent research suggests it may be a valuable risk factor.
Statistically significant associations were not seen between the medication and breast, ovarian, bladder, kidney, gastric, or esophageal cancers, and there was a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
According to researchers, their findings warrant close surveillance of weight and BMI/age z-scores for patients with type 2 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
This new subanalysis of data from the Rotterdam Study investigated life expectancy among women and men who live a healthy lifestyle and do or do not have heart failure.
Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH, Stokes-Shackleford professor of rheumatology, vice chair for research, internal medicine at the University of Nebraska, discusses interventions and treatments that could prevent lower extremity amputation for people with gout.
Ron Do, PhD, associate professor of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Iain Forrest, MD-PhD candidate in Dr Do’s lab, explain the importance of their recent study measuring population-based penetrance of pathogenic and loss-of-function clinical variants.
A study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that sleep disordered breathing in pregnancy led to a higher risk of both metabolic disease and hypertension up to 7 years post partum.
Vitamin D is thought to have neuroprotective effects and it is usually lacking in patients with Parkinson disease (PD).
This new study aimed to identify metabolic differences in endothelial cells in pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (PH) to aid in the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
Colette Romero, an advocate for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) awareness, discusses the steps her family went through to find a therapy plan that worked for her son.
The researchers investigated the role that economic evaluation and budget impact analysis plays in reimbursement decisions for nusinersen, collecting data from countries across the globe.
Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of Dermatology at Seattle Children's Hospital, discusses risk factors involved in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis and several diagnostic methods.
Data showed erenumab helped improve migraine functional impact when compared with placebo.
James Auran, MD, a professor of ophthalmology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Trauma, lists potential solutions to bolster ophthalmic trauma care in the United States.
Researchers in Italy describe their findings indicating the combination of type 2-high severe asthma and bronchiectasis should be considered an emerging phenotype.
A proposed probe of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) by the Federal Trade Commission did not win enough votes to go forward; California exits the crisis phase of the pandemic; Abbott infant formula has been recalled after 1 death.
Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD, professor of health policy and administration at Pennsylvania State University and editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Accountable Care, discusses his 2021 end-of-year letter calling on health system leaders to learn and innovate in real time.
The CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also covered varying COVID-19 vaccination coverage among people living with HIV (PLWH) in New York.
This new study from Spain investigated risk factors for COPD among individuals without a smoking history.
A new retrospective study of patients with high-risk t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) investigated outcomes from 2 therapies following return of minimal residual disease–positive status after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
An update to the ERNEST study found a survival benefit in ruxolitinib for the treatment of myelofibrosis in both the first and second line vs hydroxyurea.
Primary central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphomas are rare extranodal B-cell lymphomas with a poor prognosis and no standard treatment plan.
Researchers performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of over 20,000 patients with acne, identifying 29 novel genome-wide significant acne novel susceptibility loci.
This study investigated the relationships seen among premenopausal women with a family history of breast cancer and their breast tissue density as seen at their annual mammographic screening.
According to the authors, this is the first study to approach methotrexate intolerance measurement from a patient perspective.
Migraineurs and those with tension-type headaches reported poorer physical and cognitive work ability compared with their headache-free counterparts.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron vaccine development has been delayed; a US judge said HHS violated procedural rules in a dispute with AstraZeneca over the 340B drug discount program; Texas filed suit against the CDC’s mask mandate for airline passengers.
Japanese children of parents whose family business was primarily industry, including agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, had a greater risk of atopic dermatitis (AD) development.
Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, of the American Diabetes Association, explains why a section on chronic kidney disease management was added to the ADA's 2022 standard of care guidelines.
Immunoglobulins, free light chains, and beta-2 microglobulin all show promise in tracking systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune diseases.
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