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A recent review in Current Diabetes Reports delves into the utility of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for patients with heart failure currently on other medications.

Chronic cough is frustrating for patients and their families, especially during the pandemic, explained Krishna M. Sundar, MD, FCCP, clinical professor, Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, and medical director, Sleep-Wake Center, University of Utah.

Anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment was associated with preserved useful visual acuity in almost 20% of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).

We are still working to figure out why low levels of vitamin D are associated with worse outcomes in critical illness, noted Todd W. Rice, MD, FCCP, associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Data from a 5-year open-label treatment period on the safety profile of erenumab (Aimovig) showed the treatment helped patients with episodic migraine achieve a sustained reduction in the number of monthly migraine days and the number of days in which therapies were needed for acute migraines.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is unlike any pandemic the world has experienced in the last 100 years, said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during his keynote.

Although probing for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction is safe and effective , age at the time of initial intervention and bilateral surgery constitutes a significant risk for a failed procedure, according to study results published in BMC Ophthalmology.

Current treatment options spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are available for all types of the disease regardless of motor strength, explained Jill Jarecki, PhD, chief scientific officer at Cure SMA, and Mary Schroth, MD, FAAP, FCCP, chief medical officer at Cure SMA.

A recent analysis illustrated how a combination of different genomic approaches discovered actionable alterations in 44% of patients with metastatic breast cancer.

It is the first PD-1 inhibitor to be approved to be used as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL).

Nearly 10,000 deaths from non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were likely delayed between 2014 to 2016, the researchers calculated.

Using the Framingham risk score to differentiate patients with psoriatic arthritis with and without coronary artery disease can underestimate cardiovascular risks in these patients.

The safety profile of nivolumab plus chemotherapy was also consistent with previously reported studies in NSCLC, the researchers said.

Based on the findings, the researchers are arguing that minimal residual disease (MRD) should be considered as a clinical trial endpoint.

Study results from a phase 1 trial looking at 2 RNA-based severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccine candidates give further insight into the candidates’ safety profiles.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) was associated with lower inner vessel length density, measured via optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A), and with higher concentrations of angiopoietin-2 and osteoprotegerin, according to study results published in Scientific Reports.

Patients with severe asthma are good candidates for biologics, but choosing which biologic requires a shared decision-making conversation, said J. Allen Meadows, MD, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Migraine is a significant risk factor for postoperative nausea and vomiting, according to results of a retrospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Improvements in lung function occurred as early as 2 weeks after the first dose of treatment.

Medication overuse headache is a huge problem in societies that don't have access to proper headache care as patients take more over-the-counter, readily available treatments, said Rigmor Jensen, MD, professor of neurology at The University of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Headache Center.

Rebooting the immune system is an exciting approach, noted John Corboy, MD, professor of neurology, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, and co-director of the Rocky Mountain MS Center at Anschutz Medical Campus.

A new report confirms earlier research that colon perforation in multiple myeloma is associated with corticosteroids, though the exact cause of the apparent link is not known.

The United States has its first reported of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reinfection, in a young male patient with no underlying immune conditions.

Compared with placebo, low-dose atropine (0.01%) eyedrops may slow myopia (nearsightedness) progression and axial elongation in Chinese children with low and moderate myopia.

Patients who received anti-inflammasome nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs)—drugs approved to treat HIV-1 and hepatitis B infections—exhibited a 33% reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a meta-analysis published in Nature Communications.