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Black and Hispanic patients with acute myeloid leukemia who resided in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods had a significantly greater risk for mortality than their white counterparts, according to study results published in Blood. “The current study was a foray into understanding and documenting the gaps in leukemia care delivery and was inspired by the collective experiences of leukemia

The prevalence of non-allergic asthma was elevated among successful competitive cross-country skiers compared with the general population due to their intensive training schedule, researchers reported in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.“The prevalence of asthma has not been thoroughly assessed by performance level in cross-country skiers, but one might speculate that asthma is most

The addition of tislelizumab to first-line chemotherapy extended OS among patients with advanced esophageal cancer, according to study results presented at European Society for Medical Oncology World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.The combination conferred a significant survival benefit regardless of PD-L1 status, results of the randomized phase 3 RATIONALE 306 study showed.

Patients who began taking or who switched biologics for severe asthma consistently experienced meaningfully reduced exacerbations, according to a real-world analysis published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. As a result, individual approaches to treatment could improve outcomes, the researchers continued.

The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations.Several organizations have called for the removal of the race coefficient because it puts Black patients on the transplant list at a disadvantage. Following the vote by its board, the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) will be implementing a