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Home confinement during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic was associated with a significant myopic shift among Chinese children aged 6 to 8, according to new research published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is charged over his role in the Flint water crisis of 2014; states report new strains of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); the United States could see 90,000 more COVID-19 deaths in 3 weeks.

Study findings show that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had increased risks of respiratory complications and pneumonia after undergoing a transcatheter aortic valve insertion (TAVI) compared with those without COPD.

The statement is aimed at drug companies, policymakers, pharmacy benefit managers, employers, and others, and calls to attention soaring insulin costs, which were the subject of several Congressional hearings in 2019.

Use of the RNA inhibitor givosiran was shown to reduce expression of delta-aminolevulinic acid synthase 1, in turn reducing the severity of acute attacks and chronic symptoms for patients with severe hepatic porphyria.

Among patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, fatigue and muscle weakness, as well as sleep difficulties, were shown to persist in more than 1 in 4 patients after 6 months.

Non-Hispanic Black individuals with type 1 diabetes and coronavirus disease 2019 infections may be more likely to be hospitalized for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) compared with non-Hispanic White patients.

The Supreme Court reinstates the requirement on in-person pickup of pregnancy-ending medications; CMS releases numbers on 2020’s final week of Marketplace open enrollment; the FDA updates safety information for filgrastim (Neupogen).

Alexey Aleshin, MD, senior medical director of Oncology at biotech giant Natera, said that attention on finding biomarkers for metastatic reoccurrence needs to be directed at women with a high risk of this happening.

Emerging research into natural killer cells has shown promise, but the findings are complicated by the heterogeneity of multiple myeloma (MM).

Erenumab treatment has been associated with reductions in migraine frequency and improvements in health-related quality of life that were maintained for at least 5 years, according to the results of an open-label treatment phase of a recent study.

FDA accepts for priority review a Biologics License Application for V114, Merck's investigational 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; bluebird bio will be split into 2 publicly traded drug companies; a new variant of coronavirus is reported in Japan.

Study results, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, showed the Home Acuity Test can be used to measure visual acuity by telephone for a wide range of outpatients with diverse conditions under the care of an ophthalmologist.

Defective metabolism of levodopa in the brain was associated with a decline in the drug's efficacy over time and the adverse effect of dyskinesia among patients with Parkinson disease.

A more aggressive tumor microenvironment may be to blame for the exaggerated inflammatory response more often seen in Black women with breast cancer compared with White women.

A new American Diabetes Association (ADA) survey highlights how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic took a toll on the population with diabetes, which is one of the most prevalent preexisting conditions in America.

The FDA today accepted Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly’s supplemental New Drug Application for Jardiance (empagliflozin), the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor being investigated for use in patients with heart failure.

Data on patients with migraine who stopped erenumab treatment show that over half of patients had an early disease worsening while the remaining patients maintained their responder status during weeks 1 through 4 post treatment.

The incoming Biden administration announces plans to rapidly release most available vaccine doses against coronavirus disease 2019; the Trump administration approves the first Medicaid block grant in Tennessee; pharmaceutical executives and trade groups condemn last week’s pro-Trump riots on Capitol Hill.

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New study findings may pave the way for research into the prognostic value of white matter lesions in heart failure and the impact that HF therapies have on them.

Daniel F. Hayes, MD, offers definitions and an algorithm for clinicians to define clinical utility.

Among patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the pathophysiology for disturbed sleep consists of physiological changes, ventilatory disturbances, and inflammation.

Changes in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) are indicative of treatment response in early-stage breast cancer, pointed out Alexey Aleshin, MD, senior medical director of Oncology at biotech giant Natera.

A recent study explored how patients with Parkinson disease who suffer from constipation are more likely to have other nonmotor symptoms than patients without constipation.

The findings could lead to a precision medicine approach to prostate cancer screening.

A study links the size of cysts associated with endometriosis with coexistent ovarian cancer.

Amid speculation that total blood counts may be associated with heart failure prognosis, researchers find that higher levels of platelet distribution width could be used to predict a worse prognosis for heart failure.