Clinical

The exploration of whether early intervention has an impact in psoriasis follows data from other immune-mediated diseases in which evidence is mounting for the benefits of intervening early on in disease duration.

The esteemed panel concludes with their final thoughts on CKD therapies and management.

Drs Feldman, Pitt, and Agarwal describe the common CKD health disparities seen at their institutions and the steps they have taken to address them.

Paul Noble, MD, provides his closing thoughts on payer perspectives surrounding ILD, as well as considerations for the trajectory of ILD treatment landscape.

Nintedanib recommendations for use from the recent ATS guidelines and treatment implementation are considered by Paul Noble, MD.

The bionic pancreas uses algorithms to continually adjust insulin doses based on the user’s needs, requiring less user input compared with other existing artificial pancreas technologies.

Despite extensive study, eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) remains a significant health problem with few effective treatments, so this study compared periostin levels among those who did and did not have ECRS to assess its potential as a disease biomarker.

Amer Zeidan, MBBS, MHS, navigates prognostic models utilized for considerations surrounding patients with lower-risk and higher-risk MDS.

Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA, leads expert panelists in a conversation exploring the prevalence and clinical burden impact of MDS.

An analysis of patient-reported outcomes from the pivotal CARDINAL trial of sutimlimab in cold agglutinin disease found that quality of life (QOL) improved and persisted throughout treatment.

The targeted therapy, to be sold by Taiho Oncology as Lytgobi, had previously received breakthrough status in 2021 and was accepted for priority review in March.

Currently, there are no clear guidelines for managing extramedullary hematopoiesis in transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia.

Sonia Oskouei explores the managed care landscape and opportunities for increasing biosimilar uptake to improve patient care.

Renal outcomes and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy efficacy were unaffected by baseline renal status in a cohort of patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma, but acute kidney injury during treatment was associated with worse clinical outcomes.

Evolving treatment strategies for esophagogastric cancer are explored by Syma Iqbal, MD, including unmet needs across the treatment landscape.

Syma Iqbal, MD, provides insights pertaining to various types of upper GI cancers, as well as primary characteristics and risk factors for these diseases.

Leptin merely correlated with body mass index, the study found.

Dr King presents interleukin-15, a non-JAK inhibitor therapy option for the treatment of vitiligo.

Safety considerations, particularly surrounding JAK inhibitors in vitiligo treatment, are emphasized by the panelists.

Millie Das, MD, shares key takeaways from her presentation regarding cost-effective strategies and payer considerations related to the treatment of NSCLC.

Patients in the highest risk category had a 65% chance of recurrence of their perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (PHCC) within 1 year, this new study has found.

Overall, 65% of patients went into remission throughout the observation period, with those with concurrent eczema and pollen food syndrome (PFS) having favorable responses.

The CDC this week noted what providers and parents have been seeing across the country: rising cases of a non-polio enterovirus causing severe respiratory illness and acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).

An FDA advisory committee recently issued a positive vote for Ferring’s RBX2660, an investigational microbiota-based live biotherapeutic, for its potential in reducing recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection after antibiotic treatment.

Dr Bertram Pitt explains the possibility of combining SGLT2 inhibitors and MRAs when treating CKD and CV, and Paul Sapia, MHA, discusses how payers balance cost of care with disease progression and health disparities.