CVS Health’s Theresa Juday on How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Ameliorate Health Disparities
January 8th 2022Theresa Juday, RPh, director, Specialty Product Development, CVS Health, discusses the potential of cognitive behavioral therapy to address health disparities in underserved communities.
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Increased Patient-Physician Dialogue in EDs May Reduce Polypharmacy in Older Patients
January 8th 2022A Danish study observed emergency department (ED) health care providers and identified 5 factors that could play into patient involvement in medication discussions, particularly in older patients with polypharmacy.
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Lack of Monitoring Among Older Patients With CML Linked to Poor TKI Adherence
January 8th 2022The findings showing that older patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) had poor adherence to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) was presented last month during the American Society of Hematology Meeting & Exposition.
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Active Video Games Improve Balance Better Than Conventional Rehab in MS
January 7th 2022Video games that involve physical exertion was found to be more effective at improving balance in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with more conventional rehabilitation methods, investigators concluded.
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CDC Clarifies New COVID-19 Isolation Protocol, Outlines Efforts to Protect Children
January 7th 2022CDC officials clarified the agency's new isolation recommendations for individuals infected with COVID-19 and provided updates on its efforts to reduce pediatric cases among those too young to receive vaccines.
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COVAX Data Show Similar COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Between General Public, Patients With RMD
January 7th 2022The safety profiles of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMD) was comparable with patients with non-inflammatory RMD and the general population, according to a new study.
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Review: Greater Focus on Targeting Insulin Resistance in Patients With CKD May Be Needed
January 7th 2022Insulin resistance may become a future target of treatment in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population because of the several mechanisms in patients that contribute to increasing resistance, authors of a review concluded.
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Dr Steven Pergam Discusses NCCN's Preference for mRNA Vaccines
January 7th 2022Steven Pergam, MD, MPH, director of infection prevention at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and infectious disease physician at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's (NCCN) preference for mRNA vaccines and how they work differently.
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Dr David R. Stukus on the Increase in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
January 6th 2022David R. Stukus, MD, FACAAI, of Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and a board member of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, talks about the increase of eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE, along with other allergic conditions.
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Dr Kenneth Cohen: Change in Reimbursement Model Required to Reduce Low-Value Care
January 6th 2022Kenneth Cohen, MD, FACP, executive director of clinical research at UnitedHealth Group Research and Development and senior national medical director at OptumCare, describes the main challenges to identifying, measuring, and reducing use of low-value care and the granular data needed to solve these challenges.
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Molecular Profiling Identifies Potential Prognostic Biomarker for Treatment Response in HNSCC
January 6th 2022Human papillomavirus surrogate marker p16 was identified as a potential prognostic biomarker for standard-of-care immune checkpoint blockade therapy response in non-oropharyngeal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
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Research Finds MRP8/14 May Be a Biomarker of Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
January 6th 2022Investigation into myeloid-related protein 8/14 (MRP8/14) serves as an important next step of translational research to discovering a diagnostic biomarker for systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
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Real-World Study Finds Dupilumab Safe, Effective for Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis
January 6th 2022Korean patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis achieved and maintained markedly improved skin clearance with dupilumab treatment in a real-world setting, including in the face and hands.
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