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New CDC guidance says that Americans who live in areas with low to medium COVID-19 transmission can stop wearing masks indoors; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) halts 3 vaccine clinical trials for the respiratory syncytial virus in pregnant women; a scientific advisory panel recommends a major overhaul of the US transplant system.

Rachna Shroff, MD, associate dean of clinical and translational research and associate professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, offered a review of early-stage research in her talk, “The Hottest Targeted Therapies on the Horizon for Cholangiocarcinoma.”

William Schaffner, MD, medical director at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), and Patsy Stinchfield, RN, MS, CPNP, president-elect of NFID, discuss how respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affects different age groups.

The co-chairs of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation 2022 meeting, Lipika Goyal, MD, MPhil, of Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jesper B, Andersen, PhD, of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, reviewed clinical and scientific developments.

A new metric may help improve polypharmacy rates in older adults through identification of low-value prescribing practices.

A recent case report described the successful treatment of 2 young infants with PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum using the breast cancer drug alpelisib.

Recent research describes the cascade of neuronal death and the spread of abnormal protein aggregates throughout the brain in Parkinson disease.

During the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, presenters said findings from a second phase 3 trial of dupilumab for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) continued to show the biologic improved symptoms in adults and adolescents.

The researchers concluded the system will be able to have a significant impact for both clinical use and research, allow for a more accurate assessment of disease burden, and better decision making and monitoring.

An abstract presented at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) bore out the results of an Italian investigation into a potential link between persons living with HIV (PLWH) taking newer antiretroviral therapies and neurocognitive disorder prevalence.

Ron Do, PhD, associate professor, 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, discuss the results of their recent study measuring population-based penetrance of pathogenic and loss-of-function clinical variants.

Marijuana is not legal in Norway, where a survey of patients with Parkinson disease (PD) found a little more than 11% were current or former consumers of cannabis.

Polyp recurrence occurred in more than 1 in 3 patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps who underwent endoscopic sinus surgery, with several prognostic factors linked with recurrence.

A new study from Japan has investigated possible associations between cognitive frailty and overall prognosis among elderly individuals who have heart failure.

Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH, Stokes-Shackleford Professor of Rheumatology, vice chair for research, internal medicine, at the University of Nebraska, discusses findings on urate-lowering therapy and the lack of regional data on gout-related lower-extremity amputation.

Research has shown that adoptive immunotherapy using natural killer cells may be beneficial in leukemia treatment. The follow-up to a recent study found that the dose of alloreactive natural killer cells matters for treatment response.

Previous research has shown the health effects of obesity, including the decline in lung function. New research highlights obesity is a risk factor for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

A webinar by the National Cancer Treatment Alliance discussed current use and diagnostic/therapeutic benefits of comprehensive genomic profiling in oncology, as well as recommendations for employers and benefit consultants considering biomarker testing.

Camille Hertzka, vice president, head of oncology, US Medical, AstraZeneca, discusses principal findings of the PROpel trial, which compared outcomes between olaparib plus abiraterone vs abiraterone alone in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Studies focused on Asian populations with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treated with sildenafil are rare, and a new meta-analysis has found the phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor effective in this understudied subgroup.

A recent review examined natural killer–based therapies, a type of immunotherapy that holds promise for treating leukemia with less toxicity than currently available therapies.

Researchers found closure of patent foramen ovale could result in reduced monthly migraine days.

A recent review noted the impact of low medication adherence and health literacy on patients with difficult-to-control asthma, which supports the need for interventions that could improve both aspects of patient care.

Polish patients with atopic dermatitis reported lower overall health and impaired quality of life related to mental health in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The China-based study disseminated a survey to over 9000 college freshmen from 2 universities in the country, revealing an overall prevalence of 5.3/1000.

A data analysis found a 22% reduction in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prescriptions and a 25% reduction in new PrEP users in the United States after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency.

SARS-CoV-2 might target lacrimal glands, causing eyelid swelling due to chronic dacryoadenitis after COVID-19 infection.

Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with nasal polyps reported significantly reduced anosmia prevalence when given dupilumab vs placebo.