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Widely accepted guidelines that patients with cardiac diseases still get at least 150 minutes of exercise each week may need to adjust their accelerometer data for patients with heart failure.

A cost-saving provision made possible by the recent COVID-19 relief CARES Act now allows Americans to leverage pre-tax funds from their flexible spending arrangements [FSAs] or health savings accounts [HSAs] to purchase over-the-counter medicines and menstrual care products.

Among individuals hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Suizhou, China, the proportion of patients who wore glasses for extended daily periods was smaller than the general population.

A systematic review concluded that a correlation between magnesium deficiency and headaches exists, while magnesium deficiency may be an independent risk factor for migraine.

Wearing masks may not stop the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) via restaurants; COVID-19 trials need more Black participants; the pandemic has disproportionately disrupted HIV care services in the South.

At this year's Patient-Centered Oncology Care® 2020 virtual conference, purported lack of incentives, transparency in the supply chain of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) operations, and the overall health care system will be discussed.

As smoke from West Coast wildfires threatens to worsen outdoor air quality across the country, concerns of indoor air quality are mounting following reports on how insufficient ventilation systems facilitate aerosol spread of COVID-19.

We should look forward to a safe, effective vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but not expect it to be the ultimate panacea.

Sickle cell disease is a costly disease for patients, but when those patients suffer from end-organ damage, the costs jump significantly.

NIH investigates a serious side effect from a COVID-19 vaccine trial; a report says the pandemic has erased 25 years' worth of global health gains; the US seeks to extend a ban on global health aid for foreign organizations that provide or promote abortions.

At Ochsner Health, the largest nonprofit academic health care system in Louisiana, providers are leveraging the system’s Connected Maternity Online Monitoring (MOM) digital medicine program to minimize expectant mothers’ risks of contracting COVID-19.

A review discusses what immunotherapies are currently being evaluated to target α-synuclein, an abnormal protein suggested to have a central role in the pathogenesis of PD.

During a featured discussion at this year’s Patient-Centered Oncology Care® 2020 virtual meeting, innovations and subsequent challenges in employing these advances within the treatment of cancer will be addressed.

Long-term study results show which mechanisms of early-onset puberty in adolescent girls may predispose them to a greater risk of developing breast cancer.

Obesity is common in the general population and research has shown it can increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as increase diagnostic delays, explained Ruth Ann Marrie, MD, PhD, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at the University of Manitoba.

In children, high add power multifocal contact lenses significantly reduced the rate of myopia (nearsightedness) progression over 3 years compared with medium add power and single-vision lenses.

Nurses often get involved with patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) before their diagnosis and then work to educate them on the disease and its care, said Amy Perrin Ross, APN, MSN, CNRN, MSCN, Neuroscience Program Coordinator at Loyola University Medical Center.

Peer mentor interventions did not improve long-term hemoglobin A1C levels or yield sustained benefits among veterans with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Poor air quality from wildfires may have an impact on mental health; a new executive order to lower prescription drug prices; Pfizer and BioNTech will expand the phase 3 trial of their COVID-19 vaccine.

To the extent that some factors are modifiable, the takeaway for clinicians is to encourage their patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to adopt healthy habits.

The drug, mastinib, reduced the chance of a confirmed disability progression by 37% in phase 2b/3 study results.

With more multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments becoming available, it is now possible to better personalize approaches, explained speakers during a session at MSVirtual 2020: 8th Joint ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS Meeting.

It is well known that women are disproportionately affected by multiple sclerosis (MS), but there remains a lack of understanding regarding gender differences in response to treatments for MS, said Riley Bove, MD, assistant professor of neurology at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Pain, fatigue, and depression are 1 cluster of symptoms afflicting 1 in 13 survivors of prostate cancer, according to a recent study.

Post hoc data from 2 late-stage studies about siponimod, sold as Mayzent by Novartis, illustrated improved cognitive processing speed and delayed time to disability in multiple sclerosis.

The assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) now allows for the evaluation of various patient-reported outcomes (PROs); however, these PROs assess different disease features than exercise test outcomes.

Researchers provided an overview of what they deem a hopeful future for spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.