April 21st 2025
Despite recent declines, health care worker burnout has not returned to prepandemic levels and remains a persistent concern across roles and settings.
A recent study found that 1 in 5 households were strapped with medical debt; hospitals and hospital systems in North Carolina proposed a way to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of adults; the CDC reported that more adults sought mental health treatment in 2021 compared with 2019.
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Recommendations to Increase Equitable Psychosocial Outcomes for Children and Adolescents
September 18th 2022Nearly 30% of youths are affected with worsening mental health by the end of adolescence, with anxiety typically presenting in childhood and depression during the teenage years, but the problem is even more acute for Black and Latinx youth.
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Contributor: Improving Utilization Management Can Better Outcomes, Cut Costs in Cardiovascular Care
September 18th 2022Russell Rotondo, MD, FACC, medical director of clinical strategy and innovation for cardiology at Cohere Health, discusses the myriad positive ways utilization management programs can have an impact on patient outcomes in cardiovascular care.
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Dr Patrick Burnett on Shared Decision-Making for Moderate to Severe Psoriasis
September 17th 2022Patrick Burnett, MD, PhD, FAAD, chief medical officer of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, discusses clinical recommendations for patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, particularly the need for shared decision-making.
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ICER Releases Draft Evidence Report on Gene Therapies for Hemophilia A and B
September 17th 2022Despite $2.5 million placeholder price tags, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review draft evidence report considers gene therapy cost-effective versus comparators in both hemophilia A and B.
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Potential for Precision Medicine Approach in PAH Explored in New Study
September 16th 2022This new study of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) among women examined the in-common symptoms of different disease phenotypes to see where they overlap and ultimately to define the “symptome” according to symptom cluster and characteristics.
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Pramipexole, Citalopram Effective Therapies for Depression in Parkinson Disease
September 16th 2022Patients with Parkinson disease demonstrated significant reduction in depressive symptoms with citalopram and pramipexole, with pramipexole showing slightly more benefit in improving quality of life.
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Improved CPMs Needed for Guiding Methotrexate Use in RA
September 16th 2022The study analyzed 20 clinical prediction models (CPMs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), all of which were deemed to have a high risk of bias, leading the researchers to urge against their use to guide decision-making without addressing their limitations.
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Health experts warn that all should brace for a flu season that could be worse than the past 2 years; the CDC is opening applications to a vaccine equity program that will help those who may have limited access to the monkeypox vaccine; a new report found that health care services will be greatly affected by climate change.
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Advocate Details Challenges Faced in Path to Diagnosis for Hidradenitis Suppurativa
September 16th 2022Athena Gierbolini, president of Hope for HS, a nonprofit advocacy group for those affected by hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), discussed the misconceptions she faced from clinicians regarding her clinical symptoms of HS prior to diagnosis.
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More Diversity, Multifaceted Outreach Needed in Studies of Genetic Screening for Depression
September 15th 2022Three types of salient beliefs were investigated in this study that examined why mothers would or would not participate in depression screening via genetic salivary testing, with the results indicating potential for mental health disparities among diverse populations.
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David E. Koren, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, AAHIVP, FIDSA, infectious disease clinical pharmacist at Temple University Hospital, provides an update on current preventive efforts to address the monkeypox public health emergency in the United States and what steps are needed to protect at-risk populations.
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Elevated Incidence of Antipsychotic Use Found Prior to Parkinson Disease Diagnosis
September 10th 2022Initiation of antipsychotics was nearly 3 times more common in patients with Parkinson disease vs controls, with the incidence rate found to increase approximately 4 years prior to PD diagnosis.
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Dr Jason Ezra Hawkes on Diagnostic Challenges, Strategies in Atopic Dermatitis
September 10th 2022Jason Ezra Hawkes, MD, MS, FAAD, board-certified dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at the University of California Davis in Sacramento, spoke on diagnostic challenges for atopic dermatitis and tips for clinicians in screening for the condition.
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Dr Anchalee Avihingsanon: We Can Learn About Curing Hepatitis B From Investigating HIV
September 10th 2022Anchalee Avihingsanon, MD, PhD, HIV-NAT, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, is principal investigator of the ALLIANCE trial, currently evaluating the responses of treatment-naïve persons living with comorbid HIV/hepatitis B virus to a triplet regimen of bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide vs dolutegravir plus emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate.
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Dr Patrick Burnett Discusses Efficacy, Safety Profile of Roflumilast Cream in Psoriasis
September 10th 2022Patrick Burnett, MD, PhD, FAAD, chief medical officer of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, speaks on the positive safety and efficacy profile shown in the DERMIS-1 and DERMIS-2 trials exploring use of roflumilast cream in patients with chronic plaque psoriasis, including those with intertriginous disease.
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