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More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of a tobacco product in 2021, according to results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey that were published Thursday in MMWR.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Stand-alone microstent implantation and trabeculectomy are both effective at treating glaucoma, with the microstent possibly providing an alternative to trabeculectomy, according to a study presented here.At the America Glaucoma Society meeting, Ana Isabel Martinho Miguel, MD, PhD, said minimally invasive glaucoma surgery has become an important alternative option to the

NEW ORLEANS — Low-dose naltrexone decreased ocular pain and improved quality of life in patients with neuropathic corneal pain, according to Pam Theriot, OD, of Blink Eye Spa, who evaluated recent dry eye clinical research at SECO 2022.

While no one is immune to the effects of COVID-19, patients with obesity are at increased risk for exacerbated infection and predisposition to severe related illness. In fact, obesity has been identified as the greatest risk factor for severe COVID-19 illness — and the correlation between the two is quite complex.

As liver transplants significantly increase among older patients, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis has become the most common reason for the procedure in this population, according to a study published in Hepatology Communications.“Another study from our team, which in publication in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggests that the proportion of elderly patients in need of liver

Valneva said Wednesday that its single-shot chikungunya vaccine candidate induced protective neutralizing antibody titers in more than 96% of patients 6 months after vaccination in a phase 3 trial. The trial assessed the vaccine, VLA1553, among 4,115 adults aged 18 years or older at 44 sites in the United States. Valneva said the trial met its primary endpoint, with the vaccine inducing

Educating patients with chronic kidney disease as early as possible and reviewing the basics of kidney treatment can improve outcomes, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.“Our office started offering an education class in May 2021. [I] and one other nurse practitioner do it for our practice at two of our office locations,” Vanessa Ratcliff, MSN, APRN,

Artificial intelligence to assess changes in ECGs may represent a novel method to evaluate disease status and treatment response to mavacamten in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, researchers reported.“Although hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) causes significant morbidity and is a leading cause of sudden death in adolescents, initial detection remains difficult,”

PHOENIX — Many sesame-allergic patients only underwent testing for sesame allergy after having been diagnosed with other food allergies, with just one-third of patients having had a prior reaction to sesame, according to study results.Results of this study — the largest retrospective study of sesame-allergic patients, which was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma

In patients with rheumatoid arthritis initiating either TNF inhibitors or non-TNF inhibitor biologic therapies, severe obesity and low BMI each impeded treatment response, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.The researchers additionally found the efficacy of TNF inhibitor and non-TNF inhibitor therapies to be statistically similar across the range of body mass.