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The authors studied the impact of a pharmacist intervention on blood pressure control compared with usual care.

While teprotumumab, a new FDA-approved therapy for thyroid eye disease (TED), has its adverse events, the other options to treat TED can have severe consequences, said Shoaib Ugradar, MD, UCLA Stein Eye Center Santa Monica.

With further research, allogeneic CAR T-cell therapy may help overcome the cost and production time barriers currently associated with autologous CAR T-cell therapy.

Circulating B cell–activating factor was shown to be a potential biomarker in identifying blood eosinophil counts and risk of postoperative nasal polyp recurrence among patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP).

Therapy resistance remains a challenge with immune checkpoint inhibitors, and a new study proposes targeting ligand-dependent corepressor (LCOR) in addition to known immune targets to improve outcomes.

Genetically predicted insomnia is a risk factor for allergic disease and asthma, according to a recent Mendelian randomization study.

Bernice Kwong, MD, clinical professor of dermatology, Stanford University, talks about how later diagnosis and treatment for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) affects disease progression and overall patient outcomes.

More than a quarter of patients experience disruptions and delays in treatment for chronic heart failure (CHF) after the initial prescription for sacubitril/valsartan was abandoned/rejected.

Researchers identified 5 distinct clusters for disease exacerbation that went beyond disease labels for both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Ian Riddock, MD, describes residual cardiovascular risk, both with and without the use of statin therapies.

An expert advises how to optimize the care continuum for patients with ASCVD.

Dr Ian Riddock explains the patient journey post-myocardial infarction (MI), from hospital to outpatient care.

Ian Riddock, MD, discusses the burden of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and multi-societal guideline recommendations for lipid management.

Recent clinical trials have excluded older patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) from participating; however, patients aged 65 years and older are more likely to respond to topical corticosteroids than their younger counterparts.

The clinical utility of genomic profiling was demonstrated in patients with advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers whose access to targeted therapies based on tissue-based assay findings was similar to those with non-GI cancers.

A trastuzumab biosimilar was found to have similar safety and efficacy with the reference product (Herceptin) in patients with advanced gastric cancer, a population previously excluded from bioequivalence studies for trastuzumab biosimilars.

A retrospective study found that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was associated with postoperative pulmonary complications and longer length of stay (LOS) following lung cancer resection.

Analyses of blood-based markers showed an association between diabetes and higher glycated hemoglobin with cognitive impairment among those with Parkinson disease.

Drs Samuel Nordberg, Patricia Ares-Romero, and Martin Rosenzweig share considerations for effective care delivery for patients with TRD.

Experts in behavioral health discuss therapeutic options for TRD and considerations for defining value.

The acceleration of science and medicine is exciting, but these new advances are not always moving into practice, said Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Jay Weaver, PharmD, MPH, and Muhamed Baljević, MD, FACP, discuss how RWE can affect the management of MM.

Dr Richter relays some of the differences between real-world evidence (RWE) and RCT data, as well as how they can work together when determining therapy.

In this case, a patient died 18 months following his transplant after developing de novo intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

Patients often have comorbidities that make it important to consider them holistically and not bucket them into one disease state, and the findings on rivaroxaban show broad benefits and a favorable risk-benefit profile, said Marc Bonaca, MD, MPH, of CPC Clinical Research and CPC Community Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Treating children with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) early can help reduce progression of atherosclerosis without adverse events related to growth and development, said Raul Santos, MD, PhD, director, Lipid Clinic at the Heart Institute, and associate professor, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have changed the treatment landscape of certain cancer types, and a recent study aims to provide new insight on why treatment response varies so much from patient to patient.

Of 5 RNA investigated, 2 correlated with systemic lupus erythematosus and the last correlated with certain inflammation-related symptoms.

There is some confusion about the differences between the European and American guidelines on lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, but it’s clear that lower is better, said Pam Taub, MD, FACC, professor of medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Because type 1 diabetes can be very difficult to effectively manage in children and adolescents, these study investigators compared outcomes between a hybrid closed-loop algorithm add-on and usual care.