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RGX-314 gene therapy administered via in-office suprachoroidal injection could provide long-lasting therapy for diabetic retinopathy.Interim data from the ongoing phase 2 ALTITUDE trial showed that the treatment was well tolerated, with no cases of intraocular inflammation over 6 months. Nearly half of the patients achieved meaningful improvement in disease severity with just one injection.

PHOENIX — Although challenges remain, remote digital health practices can be implemented for most aspects of asthma evaluation and management, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.Presenting the 24th year of the Elliot F. Ellis Memorial Lectureship during the meeting’s presidential plenary session, Andrew Liu, MD, FAAAAI,

Alexander J. Ghanayem, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, has been appointed as chief medical officer of Loyola Medical Group, according to a press release.Ghanayem, a spinal surgery specialist, joined Loyola Medicine in 1995, serving as chair of the department of orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation since 2016.

Three patients in Italy have been successfully implanted with SING IMT, an implantable miniature telescope that improves vision in late-stage age-related macular degeneration, according to a press release from Samsara Vision.The Smaller-Incision New-Generation Implantable Miniature Telescope, or SING IMT, is a Galilean telescope device implanted during routine outpatient cataract surgery. After

Remote 6-minute walk testing was consistent with standardized clinic walks and may be valid in pulmonary testing, researchers reported in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine.“How a pulmonary hypertension patient performs on a standardized in clinic 6-minute walk test may not reflect how difficult (or easy) it is to chase around their children or grandchildren or go

Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic did not compromise diabetic foot ulcer prognosis if patients remained under the care of expert wound centers, according to findings published in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews.“For people with diabetic foot ulcer, this period of containment in the midst of a viral pandemic was a plunge into the unknown,” Jean-Baptiste Bonnet, MD,

Growing evidence suggests that music therapy can be an effective method for relieving pain, according to researchers. Amid the opioid epidemic, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, NIH and other medical organizations encourage nonpharmacological approaches to pain management.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend a vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis for laboratory workers and people traveling abroad to endemic areas. Two recommendations covered lab workers with a potential exposure to the virus that causes tick-borne encephalitis (TB) and people moving or traveling to an endemic area who will have

Nintedanib slows the rate of forced vital capacity decline in patients with fibrosing autoimmune disease-related interstitial lung disease, with adverse events manageable for most, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.“A substantial proportion of patients with systemic autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, dermatomyositis and polymyositis, scleroderma,

Riociguat treatment significantly improved exercise capacity and prevented clinical worsening in patients with sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertension, according to study results published in Chest.“To date, no placebo-controlled trial has evaluated treatment of sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertension using time to clinical worsening as either a primary or a secondary