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Among patients with ulcerative colitis, fecal microbiota transplantation with super donor stool was not superior to autologous stool in inducing remission, according to study results.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has resubmitted its supplemental new drug application to the FDA for pimavanserin for treating hallucinations and delusions linked to Alzheimer’s disease psychosis. The resubmission came as a response to the FDA’s complete response letter in April 2021 to the initial sNDA for a proposed indication for pimavanserin for treating dementia-related psychosis.

Most physicians and trainees who were surveyed agreed that racism has an impact on health; however, less than half of respondents reported speaking out against a racist encounter or policy.Adults aged 50 years and older were more likely to report speaking out against racism compared with younger physicians, according to survey results published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

A new study in Chest highlights a link between elevated heart rate and risk for all-cause and pulmonary embolism-related mortality in patients with acute symptomatic PE.“It is unknown if alternative heart rate cutoffs at presentation could capture more accurately the patients at low risk, ideally identifying the best candidates for home therapy and patients at intermediate to high risk,

Among patients with ulcerative colitis, IV vedolizumab safely and effectively treated chronic pouchitis following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, according to research presented at the Congress of European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization.

Albireo Pharma Inc. announced the publication of the PICTURE study, which assessed the impact that progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis has on caregivers, according to a company press release.

Pediatric allergy clinics can use telemedicine to increase accessibility, with subsequent in-person visits scheduled for necessary testing, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. However, barriers to telemedicine care remain and need to be researched and addressed, according to Suzanne Y. Ngo, MD, an instructor in the department of

Universal screening for hepatitis C virus detected more infections in pregnant people, as well as transmission to infants, according to a presenter at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

Ocular Surgery News | A 27-year-old woman was urgently transferred to Tufts Medical Center, from an outside hospital, for painful worsening facial cellulitis and pansinusitis. Her medical history was notable only for frontal bone fracture in 2001. Eleven days before transfer to Tufts Medical Center, she awoke acutely ill with several symptoms including sore throat, fever, malaise, and loss of taste and smell. On day 7

Pre-existing fecal microbiome diversity was unaffected by gluten challenge in patients with celiac disease and nonceliac gluten sensitivity, according to data published in Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.