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Black patients with hidradenitis suppurativa were more likely to experience greater disease severity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and surgeries than non-Hispanic White patients.

Loneliness may be a factor that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes but is not mediated by depression or insomnia, according to new study findings.

Medical and advocacy groups are petitioning the FDA to change the label for mifepristone to reduce barriers for miscarriage care; health insurers are becoming more flexible to ensure emergency care is met after Hurricane Ian; President Joe Biden will nominate US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, for the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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.

Outcomes following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI), were assessed among a large patient population in Ontario, Canada.

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.

Children with acute infective conjunctivitis experienced significantly reduced duration of conjunctival symptoms when treated with topical antibiotics.

The research shows a disease-specific quality-of-life (QOL) tool is more sensitive than a generic version.

Results of a study among persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Hong Kong showed that a 3-dose primary COVID-19 vaccine series improved immune protection.

At the American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual conference, Rona Z. Silkiss, MD, FACS, an oculoplastic surgeon and owner of Silkiss Eye Surgery, dived into how biologic therapies can be used to treat thyroid eye disease and what can be done to ensure patients have access to these treatments.

Michael N. Cohen, MD, a retinal surgeon at Wills Eye Hospital and Mid Atlantic Retina, describes the differences between wet and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and how gene therapy could help treat the condition in the future.

A retrospective observational study found that there was a decline in health care services for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Optum and Change Healthcare have completed their merger initiated in 2021; efficacy of the Jynneos vaccine is in question after 90 of 7339 individuals contracted monkeypox after vaccination; the CDC will no longer maintain a list of country-by-country COVID-19 travel advisories.

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.

Women, Hispanic individuals, and people with a body mass index above 30 kg/m2 are more likely to have an increase in insulin when they have severe snoring.

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.

One of the first parts of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act took effect Monday; it boosts the add-on payment for qualifying biosimilars whose average sales price is not more than the price of its reference product from 6% of the reference product’s ASP to 8% for 5 years.

Location, cost, and transportation were cited as important factors regarding adherence and satisfaction with community-based exercise programs among patients with Parkinson disease.

Results from the pivotal PHOTON and PULSAR trials highlighted the success of 8-mg aflibercept every 12 or 16 weeks in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).

Amresh Raina, MD, director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Allegheny General Hospital and the Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a board-certified advanced heart failure cardiologist, who is also certified in echocardiography and general cardiology.

Children who lived in apartments or newer buildings were also found to have an increased risk of atopic dermatitis later in life.

Neil D. Gross, MD, FACS, is head and neck surgeon and director of clinical research in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at MD Anderson.

Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in human evolution; the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALA drug AMX0035 was priced at $158,000 per year or about $12,500 per 28-day prescription; more than 16,000 Americans died of combination cancer and COVID-19 in the first 10 months of the pandemic.

During a lecture delivered at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting, James Madara, MD, CEO of the American Medical Association, discussed 3 areas in ophthalmology care that required innovation to effectively push care into the 21st century.

The Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) will be the successor to the Oncology Care Model.

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.

Posters presented at AAO 2022 found that family medicine doctors and artificial intelligence (AI) were able to screen patients for diabetic retinopathy (DR) effectively, although false negatives in AI need to be improved.

A new report finds despite reforms to the country’s health care system, many patients in China with lung cancer experience stress, and sometimes health consequences, on account of the disease’s financial burden.

Posters presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2022 annual meeting show that the treat-and-extend (T&E) regimen was effective in managing neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), which makes adherence to treatment vital for long-term outcomes.

Co-hosted by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the most recent Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event took place on September 22, with a focus on improving cancer care delivery through innovation.