Pearl Steinzor

Increased options and strong demand resulted in record-breaking 2024 enrollment.

Two posters presented at the 2023 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference examined patient demographics, clinical characteristics, and outcomes in patients with plaque psoriasis treated with tapinarof cream.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, president and executive director of Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses how value-based care teams can collaborate to ensure diversity and inclusion in clinical trials.

If finalized, these proposals will generally take effect on January 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted.

Desmoid tumors are noncancerous growths that appear in connective tissue, most often on the arms, legs, and abdomen. Aggressive tumors must be treated with surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy to keep them from growing into nearby organs, which can make them life threatening. They can cause pain and disfigurement, and they can reduce functioning and quality of life.

Triple therapy may improve asthma symptoms, particularly among patients requiring systemic corticosteroids to treat severe exacerbations, a study finds.

Posters presented at ACAAI 2023 Annual Scientific Congress examined dupilumab use in children with moderate-to-severe asthma and in the presence of elevated type 2 biomarkers.

Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses the importance of incorporating structured data into digital health policy to improve the speed and efficiency of shared information across multiple health settings.

A meta-analysis highlights the potential of influenza vaccination as an adjunctive strategy in reducing cardiovascular disease.

Alyson Moadel-Robblee, PhD, deputy director of community engagement and cancer health equity at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, discussed the center's evolving patient distress screening process and the Bronx Oncology Living Daily support program for patients with cancer.

A phase 3 trial in symptomatic and anemic patients with myelofibrosis (MF) met its primary end point, seeing a significant symptom reduction at 24 weeks with momelotinib vs danazol.

More than 77,000 additional doses of nirsevimab-alip will be distributed for respiratory syndactyl virus (RSV) immunization in infants.

Repotrectinib achieved a high objective response rate and durable response in the pivotal TRIDENT-1 trial.

Although telehealth is broadly accepted as a mode of cancer rehabilitation, accessibility and in-person challenges exist.

A recent study sheds light on issues surrounding the system's functionality, transparency, and responsiveness.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, president and executive director of Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses key challenges and opportunities for improving cancer care among rural and minority patients.

Posters presented at ACAAI 2023 Annual Scientific Congress assessed digital health tools to improve asthma self-management.

Two posters presented at the 2023 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference assessed phase 4 study findings on tildrakizumab in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Posters presented at the 2023 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference evaluated how label warnings may affect new treatment initiation and real-word switching patterns for patients starting risankizumab.

Researchers provide progression-free survival outcomes for a pancreatic cancer vaccine and safety and efficacy results for a peptide vaccine alone or in combination with pembrolizumab.

Despite the growing availability of prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) coming to market, few products have gone through rigorous standards of evidence testing, according to one study.

The prevalence of eosinophilic asthma and severe asthma phenotypes was high in many countries, according to one study.

Mona Shahriari, MD, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University and associate director of clinical trials at Central Connecticut Dermatology, discusses unique challenges dermatologists face when treating patients with skin of color, who may present differently from White patients.

Researchers highlighted the potential long-term consequences of COVID-19 on incident autoimmune and autoinflammatory connective tissue disorders in a recent study.

Two posters presented at the 2023 Fall Clinical Dermatology conference identified common patterns among patients with psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

The new vaccine program will protect against influenza and COVID-19.

Afreen Shariff, MD, MBBS, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the challenges and benefits of electronic consults (e-consults) for patients with cancer currently undergoing treatment who have a comorbidity history or who develop an endocrine system disorder because of treatment.

Toku’s platform aims to deliver real-time cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessments using routine eye exams.

No genes were identified in psoriatic patches that were not also mutated in the patient’s unaffected skin area.

Anshul Mangal, biotech entrepreneur, attorney, CEO, and founder of Project Farma, discusses how supply chain disruptions and the current cancer drug shortage are affecting patients.