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CHICAGO – Healio gathered the best, brightest and boldest group of oncologists during the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago to celebrate our inaugural Healio Disruptive Innovators.Please enjoy this slideshow of photos taken during the event.

A cohort of mostly Black women who developed a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy were 2.4 times more likely to develop hypertension 10 years later, data from a prospective study show.In an analysis of women who participated in an earlier study that enrolled women with confirmed preeclampsia or gestational hypertension and normotensive controls, researchers also found that differences in

ATLANTA — People who spend more time per day using wireless mobile devices are more likely to have a higher BMI, lower-quality sleep and other adverse health outcomes, according to a presenter at ENDO 2022. In findings from a literature review, each hour per day increase in mobile screen time was associated with an increase in BMI, and excessive device use was linked to insufficient sleep,

DENVER — Monoclonal antibodies have shown promise as an emerging treatment for migraine, Stephanie J. Nahas, MD, MSEd, FAHS, FAAN, said at the American Headache Society annual scientific meeting. “What we've learned from looking back at clinical trial data is that the monoclonal antibodies have very low numbers needed to treat, and very high numbers needed to harm —

Jason W. Smith, MD, and Amy Fiedler, MD, have joined the University of California, San Francisco, Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center, according to a press release from the institution.“We welcome the addition of our new colleagues and see this as an important step in the growth of our multidisciplinary program. Their expertise allows us to provide expanded patient access

ATLANTA — Parabens, a class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals widely found in hair and personal care products, promote viability and gene expression of a breast cancer cell line in Black women, according to data presented at ENDO 2022. Researchers evaluated the effects of three types of parabens in the HCC1500 breast cancer cell line, which is typically found in Black women of West African

Acupuncture benefitted patients with head and neck cancer who had radiation-induced xerostomia, according to study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.The randomized phase 3 WF-97115 trial included 258 patients.

A recent study showed that restrictive diets were more effective than optimized medical treatment alone in reducing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Experts from across the field of endocrinology will gather in Atlanta beginning Saturday for the first in-person Endocrine Society annual meeting in 3 years. ENDO 2022 will kick off Saturday and continue through Tuesday at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. This year’s meeting will have a hybrid format, with more than 100 sessions livestreamed to a virtual platform for attendees

CHICAGO —Adding relatlimab to nivolumab improved PFS, OS and objective response rates across key subgroups of patients with previously untreated metastatic or unresectable melanoma, according to a study presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.The results showed superiority of nivolumab and relatlimab-rmbw (Opdualag, Bristol Myers Squibb) over single-agent nivolumab (Opdivo, Bristol Myers Squibb),