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Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps experienced improved sleep and functioning after 52 weeks of treatment with dupilumab, according to research published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. These improvements in turn improved health-related quality of life, William Busse, MD, honorary associate and fellow in the department of medicine, division of

Patients treated for stroke at non-urban hospitals in New Zealand experience poorer outcomes and face reduced access to crucial stroke interventions across the entire care spectrum, according to a study published in Neurology. “Departures from best practice stroke care in smaller, non-urban New Zealand hospitals have been accepted where a small population is dispersed over a wide geographic

In a cohort of more than 400,000 patients at high risk for CVD requiring primary prevention, less than half were taking appropriately dosed statins and less than 10% were taking nonstatin lipid-lowering therapies, researchers reported. For an abstract presented at the National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions, Ahmed A. Kolkailah, MD, cardiovascular medicine fellow at the University of Texas

A dietary supplement that includes the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin helped slow progression of age-related macular degeneration.According to 10-year results from AREDS2, conducted by the National Institutes of Health, a new formula that replaced beta-carotene from the original AREDS formula with lutein and zeaxanthin reduced the risk for AMD progression in addition to being safer because of

CHICAGO — Results showed patients who utilized a virtual physical therapy program after total knee arthroplasty had similar outcomes, but significant cost and time savings, compared with patients who used a formal physical therapy program.“Virtual physical therapy may not be the best option for some, but I think for the vast majority of patients that are getting hip and knee

Adverse maternal and cardiovascular outcomes were more likely in pregnant women with cardiomyopathy compared with those who had a different or no heart disease, findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis showed.

SAN FRANCISCO — New real-world data demonstrate treatment with selexipag improved outcomes in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with connective tissue disease.At the American Thoracic Society International Conference, Sean Gaine, MD, with the National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit at Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and colleagues reported patient

Pediatric melatonin consumption in the United States has risen more than fivefold since 2012, with related hospitalization increasing as well, according to data published Thursday in MMWR.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a likely cause for worsened disparities in buprenorphine and naltrexone access for opioid use disorder among minority groups compared with white patients, per a study published in JAMA Network Open. “Despite some progress in [medications for opioid use disorder] use, pre-pandemic evidence suggested that it was associated with frequent exposure to high out-of-pocket

An education session at the ASCO Annual Meeting will review strategies to address bias and microaggressions in the medical workplace.