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The study highlights a need for further research into potential contributors, including the possibility that sicker patients may receive more prompt treatment.

The OneOncology Annual Conference is being held November 11-13 in Nashville, Tennessee, and brings together practice leaders, physicians, and advanced practice providers to discuss the business of oncology and scientific advancements, explained Davey Daniel, MD, chief medical officer of OneOncology.

Over the course of voxelotor treatment, hemoglobin levels and hemolysis markers improved, with results sustained over the treatment period.

Dr Siefker-Radtke provides her closing thoughts on her takeaways from ESMO 2022, including a study focusing on penpulimab plus anlotinib.

Representatives across 12 disease groups make up a council that sets clinical recommendations for oncology care and those decisions are being pushed out in the electronic medical record for decision support at the point of care, said Jeffrey Patton, MD, CEO, OneOncology, and executive chairman of the board, Tennessee Oncology. Patton will lead off OneOncology's Physician Leadership Conference, which runs November 11-13 in Nashville.

Disitamab vedotin is a promising antibody-drug conjugate option undergoing evaluation for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

Genetic factors previously known to predispose people to hyperopia were not risk factors for clinically significant depression in the study.

Dr Siefker-Radtke shares takeaways from the SOGUG-AUREA study and its influence on treatment for patients with urothelial cancer.

Mobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score.

The hesitation to prescribe nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to patients with hemophilia is not supported by current research, based on a recently published review, but the available studies had significant limitations.

The increasing rate of melanoma diagnosis may not be due to actual disease, the authors of a new study posit; instead, it may be due to overdiagnosis of patients with an actual very low risk of death.

This new report also shows the value of national databases tracking the use of ventilation support.

An analysis of real-world data from a single medical center is providing insight into the effects of off-label glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (RA) and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor use in people with type 1 diabetes.

Although the understanding of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) has improved in recent years, more work is needed to facilitate personalized treatments for patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

A new report has found continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) may help reduce staff burden in the intensive care unit (ICU) by reducing the need for blood gas monitoring.

The investigators of a new study evaluated if nasal cytology was a reliable method to identify type 2 inflammation in patients who have chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), which could then facilitate patient selection for biological drug utilization via endotypization.

The new data suggest risdiplam can be a viable option for people with spinal muscular atrophy who cannot take or tolerate the 2 other approved disease-modifying therapies.

The FDA approved cemiplimab (Libtayo) in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with no EGFR, ALK or ROS1 aberrations.

Zanubrutinib is the latest of 3 Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors approved for rare B-cell malignancies, such as Waldenström macroglobulinemia, a non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma (NHBCL); as a next-generation BTK inhibitor, zanubrutinib is designed to have less off-target effects.

While chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has offered a new option and improved outcomes for patients with advanced hematologic malignancies, the treatment approach has been associated with toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS), neurotoxicity, and hematotoxicity.

A phase 3 study showed Ferring’s RBX2660, an investigational microbiota-based live biotherapeutic, to be safe and significantly reduce recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) after antibiotic treatment, with a sustained response achieved through 6 months.

Unmet needs in MDS treatment management are proposed by Salman Fazal, MD.

Dr Haumschild leads a discussion regarding cost-associated burden for patients with MDS.

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FNLA, professor of medicine and the Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventative Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, discusses the results of the recently halted FRESH trial, why there is such a great need for new antihypertensive agents, and possible contributory factors to outcome disparities between Black and White patients.

Major depressive disorder treatment failure can lead to subsequent costs and poor outcomes, affecting payer considerations in the treatment landscape.