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In addition to current available risk scores, the new system can help counsel patients with myelofibrosis (MF) undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT), authors wrote.

Study authors said the findings could inform clinicians when selecting therapies for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, an editorial found the follow-up period too short and differences between the study arms too small to be meaningful.

Kevin Davies, PhD, executive editor, The CRISPR Journal and GEN Biotechnology, discusses how CRISPR technology has seen success and potential areas for future application.

Fran Gregory, PharmD, vice president of emerging therapies at Cardinal Health, discusses the role the new wave of biosimilars will have on rebate practices for both pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and payers.

Treatment options have improved care, but also increased the need for patient education.

A study found that not being infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the first year of life was associated with a decreased risk of developing asthma in childhood.

The possible consequences for health care if the United States breaches the debt ceiling; skepticism follows proposal for over-the-counter birth control pill; North Carolina governor calls potential abortion ban harmful.

After winning our Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award, these researchers have gone on to make substantial impacts in the field of managed care and mentor the next generation of investigators.

Cost sharing for several treatments could disappear following the Braidwood v Becerra ruling, according to A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan and co-editor in chief of The American Journal of Managed Care®.

Common treatments for acne are known to be unsafe for pregnant women, but alternative treatments exist that are safe for use; however, actual treatment patterns within this patient population are unclear.

To address the research gap in familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (FFEVF), investigators assessed the clinical features of a family with FFEVF that included 4 patients in 3 generations and 1 healthy member.

How much does education about the specific risks of smoking assist in smoking cessation?

A recent survey assessed the factors that adult patients with eczema and caregivers find important regarding clinical trial participation decision-making.

Previous research has shown household food insecurity is linked with poor dietary intake, but research specific to those with diabetes has been sparse.

Dupilumab treatment delivered at a specialized tertiary care center has great potential to improve patient clinical outcomes in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP).

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has emerged as a highly successful therapeutic strategy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in recent years.

For Brain Cancer Awareness Month, AJMC shares an interview with Day One Biopharmaceuticals CEO Jeremy Bender, PhD, MBA. Bender discussed the company's lead agent, tovorafenib, which has shown promise in treatment of pediatric low-grade glioma.

Steven Heatherly of Baptist Health in Kentucky talks about the success of heart clinics and promising results from remote patient monitoring.

An expert panel at the recent meeting of the Quality Cancer Care Alliance discussed the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), which is set to begin on July 1, 2023.

Diabetes risk perception was linked to increased TV watching and 1 less day per week of at least 60 minutes of exercise, and was not associated with nutrition or weight loss attempts among adolescents.

The presence of certain comorbidities prior to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer may be associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular events after starting ADT, recent research found.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said she will leave the agency at the end of June, a few hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday.

Inhaled corticosteroids were observed to be associated with increases in rates of pneumonia and tuberculosis, according to a recent study.

A recent study found that patients with advanced solid cancers with high tumor mutational burden (TMB) saw improved outcomes on immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) compared with patients who had low-TMB cancers.

A review article investigating the use of bevacizumab biosimilars found that despite lingering concerns about their usage for extrapolated indications, bevacizumab biosimilars are regularly used in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) even though clinical tests only evaluate them in patients with lung cancer.

In a cohort of patients in New York with mpox, HIV status did not seem to affect treatment outcomes with tecovirimat, although more research is needed.

The Biden administration has come to an agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health to improve sewer services for residents of Lowndes County who have lived with pools of raw sewage; COVID-19 was still a leading cause of death in 2022; Medicare improperly paid providers for some psychotherapy services during the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Young patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have significant social, physical, and emotional development challenges that occur before age 8.

Researchers set out to examine the effects of sodium nitroprusside on the thromboxane-mediated contraction and nitric oxide (NO)-independent relaxation pathways and on reactive oxygen species accumulation in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells.