Conference News

New Research Aims to Unravel Both ME/CFS and Long COVID A 2-day research conference sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health highlighted research that points to mechanisms that suggest potentially "druggable" pathways.
news, December 21, 2023
The Latest Findings on Major Breast Cancer Trials Here's a roundup of the most recent data from five phase 3 trials presented at SABCS 2023.
news, December 21, 2023
New Multiple Myeloma Staging Systems Outperform the Standard Findings from a large US cohort study show comparable accuracy, but better discrimination of patients across disease stages.
news, December 19, 2023
Infection Main Cause of Nonrelapse Death With CAR T Therapy Infections, cardiopulmonary disease, and second cancers were among the leading causes of nonrelapse deaths in patients receiving CAR T-cell therapy, both in clinical trials and clinical practice.
news, December 19, 2023
GLP-1s Face Off Against Each Other, Weight-Loss Surgery New comparison studies show the popular weight-loss medications might not reduce certain complications as well as surgical interventions, but there's still plenty of positive news surrounding them.
news, December 19, 2023
Novel Solutions Needed to Boost Pediatric Rheum Recruitment Projections suggest that by 2030, demand for pediatric rheumatologists in the United States will exceed supply by about 77%.
news, December 19, 2023
Migraine Experts: Head-to-Head Drug Comparisons Better Placebo-controlled trials are insufficient for decisions that affect medication availability in EU member states.
news, December 19, 2023
Restarting CGRPs for Migraine May Lower Response Rate Restarting a CGRP monoclonal antibody (mAb) after a gap in treatment may lower response rate, a new study suggests. However, switching to a different mAb may counter this effect.
news, December 18, 2023
Sickle Cell CRISPR Therapy May Offer 'Functional Cure' Patients with severe sickle cell disease could soon be freed from vaso-occlusive crises after receiving an infusion of exa-cel, the first gene-editing therapy to use CRISPR technology.
news, December 18, 2023
Multiple Benefits of Mindfulness for Migraine, RCT Shows A mindfulness-based treatment has shown multiple benefits in patients with chronic migraine and medication-overuse headaches, results of a new randomized trial show.
news, December 18, 2023
Pregnancy Safe After BRCA-Mutated Breast Cancer Although pregnancy after breast cancer is considered safe in general, little data exist for BRCA carriers.
news, December 15, 2023
This Frontline Therapy Is Better in Multiple Myeloma: Study A study directly comparing real-world outcomes suggests patients with transplant-ineligible multiple myeloma do better with frontline triple therapy with daratumumab vs bortezomib.
news, December 14, 2023
How to Choose the Most Appropriate Migraine Treatment With many medications to choose from, doctors need to weigh the pros and cons of each drug to decide on the best approach for the patient.
news, December 14, 2023
Survival-Toxicity Trade-off With T-DM1 in HER+ Breast Cancer Older patients with advanced HER2+ breast cancer do not experience a survival benefit with trastuzumab emtansine vs standard-of-care combination therapy, although toxicity is improved, a trial shows.
news, December 14, 2023
Less Is More for Axillary Surgery in Early Breast Cancer Women with early breast cancer can safely undergo less extensive axillary surgery because it has no impact on recurrence or mortality rates but reduces the risk for lymphedema, a meta-analysis shows.
news, December 13, 2023
No Benefit to Salvage Transplant in R/R Multiple Myeloma Long-term follow-up shows no progression-free or overall survival advantage among patients who received salvage transplant vs continuous lenalidomide plus dexamethasone.
news, December 13, 2023
Few With Inflammatory Breast Cancer Get Guideline-Based Care A US study finds a surprisingly low rate of guideline-concordant care in women with inflammatory breast cancer.
news, December 13, 2023
Transcatheter Tricuspid Repair Improved Quality of Life Transcatheter tricuspid repair reduced valve regurgitation and improved quality of life at 1 year even for the sickest patients, but mortality remained high, new analysis of TRILUMINATE trial shows.
news, December 12, 2023
MRD Status Predicts Transplant Benefit in NPM1-Mutated AML MRD-positive patients in first complete remission after induction therapy had a survival benefit after transplant; however, that benefit did not extend to MRD-negative patients after transplant.
news, December 12, 2023
Measurable Residual Disease-Guided Therapy Promising in CLL The ibrutinib-venetoclax combination was particularly effective in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with high-risk features such as IGHV unmutated disease or chromosomal abnormalities.
news, December 12, 2023
MSWS 2023 What's New in Acne Treatment? Advances in acne care include the use of light-based devices.
News, December 04, 2023
AES 2023 Poverty Tied to Poor Cognition in Patients With Epilepsy Mounting research links poverty and other elements of neighborhood deprivation to worse cognition in people with epilepsy.
News, December 04, 2023
MSWS 2023 New Tools Available to Help Diagnose Skin Cancer Emerging technologies aim to improve skin cancer diagnosis without biopsies.
News, December 03, 2023
MSWS 2023 Misdiagnoses Among Challenges in Managing Cutaneous Lymphoma Although predictive tools to identify those at risk of disease progression are in their infancy, the development of such tools is crucial for improving patient outcomes.
News, December 02, 2023
Procedures May Ease Postmenopausal Pain Better Than Drugs Postmenopausal women report more significant improvements in chronic pain after procedural interventions when compared with their younger counterparts, despite being notably less likely to use muscle relaxants, TCAs, and benzodiazepines.
News, December 01, 2023
EADV 2023 Novel Subcutaneous Biologics Show Promise in AD Patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis could soon have more therapeutic options, with monoclonal antibodies targeting novel immune pathways that reduce disease severity, suggest two trials.
News, December 01, 2023
SABCS 2023 SABCS 2023 Highlights Breast Cancer De-Escalation From humble beginnings in 1977, 10,000 people are expected to attend this year's breast cancer meeting in San Antonio.
News, December 01, 2023
TCT 2023 Transapical Valve Replacement Relieves Mitral Regurgitation Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.
News, November 30, 2023
ACR 2023 Rheumatology Patients Prefer Office Visits to Telemedicine Despite relatively high approval rates overall, patient satisfaction was lower among those treated via telemedicine at two tertiary medical centers.
News, November 29, 2023
AHA 2023 Sudden Cardiac Deaths Down Among NCAA Athletes The incidence of sudden cardiac deaths has decreased over the past two decades among NCAA collegiate athletes but remains relatively high for male basketball players and certain other groups.
News, November 27, 2023
Chest Pain With Long COVID Common but Undertreated A Mayo Clinic study found nearly 90% of patients with long COVID experience chest pain, but treatment for this condition is not yet standardized.
News, November 22, 2023
AHA 2023 AI Voice Analysis App May Detect Worsening HF Early Voice analysis with an app that uses artificial intelligence may provide early warning of acute decompensated heart failure, researchers suggest. But these are early days, a cardiologist cautions.
News, November 22, 2023
Risks Quantified in Medically Optimized Pregnancy With Lupus Patients who were not medically optimized for pregnancy were three times more likely to experience preterm birth and preeclampsia.
News, November 21, 2023
WCN 2023 A Role for Neurologists in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy The rise in diabetic neuropathy over the last few decades has paralleled the obesity and related diabetes pandemics, one expert says, and neurologists have a role to play in controlling it.
News, November 21, 2023
AHA 2023 'Smart' Stethoscope Spots Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Screening with an AI-enhanced digital stethoscope doubled the diagnoses of life-threatening peripartum cardiomyopathy in Nigeria, where the incidence is the highest in the world.
News, November 21, 2023
ACR 2023 Telemedicine Offers Solution for No-Show Appointments Converting these missed appointments to telemedicine visits resulted in more than 250 additional hours of patient care as well as a moderate reduction in lost revenue.
News, November 21, 2023
Choosing the Right Approach to Cancer and Menopause Symptoms Hormone replacement therapy may be considered to lessen these symptoms, but only in certain conditions, said a gynecologist.
News, November 21, 2023
AHA 2023 Single Injection Reduces Blood Pressure for 6 Months The RNA interference therapeutic targeting synthesis of angiotensinogen lowered BP in adults with mild to moderate hypertension for up to 6 months after one dose in the phase 2 KARDIA-1 study.
News, November 20, 2023
AASLD 2023 Novel Agent Seladelpar Improves Markers of PBC Activity For 1 in 4 patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who received the investigational PPAR-delta agonist, alkaline phosphatase levels normalized.
News, November 17, 2023
Tool May Help Boost Confidence in Ability to Recall Memories A new intervention tool is training older adults to boost their everyday memory.
News, November 17, 2023

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