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Transplant programs erect several bureaucratic roadblocks that can stall efforts by patients to obtain a kidney transplant, a speaker said at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.“We need to get out of the rut created by the organ transplant system,” Eliot C. Heher, MD, founder of Square Knot Health Inc. and previously the medical director of kidney transplant at

Dental implant failures were more common among patients who reported a penicillin allergy and received other antibiotics than those who used amoxicillin, according to a study published in Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. “More than 100 million people in the U.S. are missing at least one tooth, which may affect their ability to comfortably eat, speak or smile. In some cases,

A 4 mg dose of baricitinib was associated with significant improvement compared with placebo in alopecia areata disease severity, according to a study. “Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder marked by disfiguring, nonscarring hair loss, and there are no therapies approved by the FDA for treatment of the disease,” Brett King, MD, PhD, of the Yale School of Medicine, told

Dysfunction in an important cell subtype in the brain’s neuronal network contributes to chronic symptoms in patients with Dravet syndrome, according to an expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. According to a press release from the hospital, the researchers found that a pathogenic variant in the SCN1A gene, which makes the protein Nav1.1, was found to be present in more

An artificial intelligence model showed potential for pancreatic cancer prediction, using electronic medical records to identify individuals with a 25-fold greater risk for developing the disease within 3 to 36 months, study results showed.The findings, presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, could support the design of future screening trials of patients at high

NAPLES, Florida — In this video, Asad Ur Rahman, MD, a gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic Florida, spoke with Healio about key takeaways from his 2022 ACG/FGS Spring Symposium presentation on hospitalization in patients with severe IBD.

New research presented during the late-breaking trials program at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings showed the anemia drug daprodustat has cardiovascular benefits comparable to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.

Although smoking cessation is known to benefit patients with cancer, obstacles exist at the patient, clinician and institutional levels, according to a poster presentation at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting. “Even if the patient says, ‘I want to do it,’ and the physician says, ‘Let’s go ahead,’ if the institution doesn’t have a

At its first in-person conference since the pandemic, the presidential address at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings focused on how COVID-19 impacted kidney care and how nephrologists should move forward.“The past 2 years, our lives have been completely disrupted by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. I know that we have all been touched by the pandemic in one way or another,”

A recent CDC revision to the reference value used to identify children with high levels of lead in their blood doubled the estimated number of children who should be referred for follow-up, per guidelines, a pair of experts noted recently.