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Bon Secours Mercy Health and Strive Health have entered a collaborative relationship to provide “high-quality, whole-person care” for patients with kidney disease.According to the press release, Strive Health intends to offer comprehensive support to Bon Secours Mercy Health to achieve the goal of helping nearly 8,000 patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease

SAN FRANCISCO — A session at the American Thoracic Society International Conference highlighted a new clinical practice guideline addressing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and progressive pulmonary fibrosis in adults. The new guidance comes nearly 4 years after the last guidance on the diagnosis and management of IPF, according to the ATS.

As the medical community celebrates Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month this May, the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology reminds clinicians and patients alike that allergists are key to successful asthma treatment. “Allergists are board certified asthma specialists,” Jonathan L. Bayuk, DO, vice chair of the ACAAI Payer and Managed Care Committee and president of

Dry eye syndrome significantly affected values associated with corneal astigmatism and should be considered during preoperative evaluations for patients undergoing toric IOL implantation, according to a study.

HD201, a trastuzumab biosimilar candidate, demonstrated equivalent efficacy to referent trastuzumab among patients with ERBB2-positive early breast cancer, according to phase 3 study results published in JAMA Oncology. The agents also had similar safety profiles.

A next-generation transcatheter aortic valve replacement system was associated with less paravalvular aortic regurgitation compared with an earlier version, researchers reported at EuroPCR.For the observational, retrospective ITAL-neo registry, Andrea Buono, MD, interventional cardiologist at Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero in Brescia, Italy, analyzed 900 patients with severe aortic

Black and Hispanic patients who received chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma achieved similar efficacy outcomes as white and Asian individuals, according to study results.Similar treatment-related toxicities occurred regardless of patients’ race or ethnicity, findings published in Bone Marrow Transplantation showed.

The FDA declined a request to authorize an inexpensive generic antidepressant and obsessive-compulsive disorder medication for emergency use as an outpatient treatment for COVID-19.

Young adults with prediabetes are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized for MI compared with young adults without impaired glucose tolerance, suggesting more screening and awareness is needed, researchers reported.“After performing statistical tests and taking into account various influencing and modifying factors, we found that young patients with prediabetes had 1.7 times higher

Travere Therapeutics Inc. announced the FDA has accepted and granted priority review of its new drug application under subpart H for accelerated approval of sparsentan for treatment of IgA nephropathy.According to the company press release, sparsentan is a dual endothelin angiotensin receptor antagonist that targets the endothelin A receptor and the angiotensin II subtype 1 receptor.