Erin Hunter, Assistant Editor

Researchers observed disparities in health outcomes between Black individuals and White individuals due to stroke, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.

The drug is a selective, nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist found to also protect against COVID-19 and pneumonia-related adverse events in patients with diabetes.

The vaccine is suggested to cause more rare cases of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome than the mRNA-based vaccine, especially among younger individuals.

Pharmacy Times will be covering the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week, which will be gathering more than 10,000 professionals working on kidney health in Orlando, Florida.

Pharmacy Times is gearing up for Kidney Week (Nov. 3-6) by learning about the pharmacological role of kidney care from the president of the American Society of Nephrology.

New evidence suggests that using artificial intelligence can help individualize diagnostics and protocols, including when women should get mammograms and what medications can best suit which people.

A compound often found in citrus fruits, nobiletin, could be a less toxic and more effective treatment for cholangiocarcinoma.

New dry eye disease treatment on the horizon.

Inflammation-based prognostic scores can be a valuable tool in assessing the overall survival of patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

The estimation of glomerular filtration rate based on cystatin C could provide a more robust prediction of cardiovascular disease and mortality in patients.

Covis announced positive topline results for 2 new medications that can treat patients with moderate to severe stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

School can spread more than knowledge- some researchers suggest that pink eye is most commonly spread among school students.

By 2019, lung cancer mortality rates decreased by 5.4% in males since 2015, while deaths from ovary cancer have also declined rapidly over the past 2 decades.

Monkeypox may be transmitted through conjunctivitis, according to a new study.

Research suggests that positron emission tomography scans are effective at detecting early and late Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the results could help manage and reduce toxicity from current chemotherapies.

Understanding the novel mechanisms of multiple myeloma can help to develop better next-generation therapies that overcome drug resistance.

In a multivariable analysis, treatment with carboplatin is favored for extensive-stage cell lung cancer, even if it is not found to increase overall survival compared to standard care.

In patients with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, researchers observed no significant difference between liberal and restrictive oxygenation on any-cause death.

The Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine was found to be effective for more than 50% of children aged 6 to 23 months.

A researcher suggests that the levels of certain gut bacteria can predict the severity of symptoms that someone can experience when infected with COVID-19.

Prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 decreased the risk of being reinfected with Omicron among unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals.

Black adults are suggested to have an increased risk of heart failure, which highlights the need for equitable treatment and decision-making.

Understanding the relationship between viral protein activity and rapid gene mutations could help researchers save more lives by creating a more effective flu vaccine.

Researchers conducted a review all 8 herpesviruses and their known treatments and found patients experienced encephalitis or another CNS symptom in almost every strain.

Researchers suggest that winter 2020 to 2021 public health interventions lowered natural immunity in children and put them at greater risk of respiratory infection after restrictions were lifted.

Nivolumab may cut the risk of death or recurrent cancer by more than half, according to phase 3 trial results.

The risk of severe COVID-19 breakthrough infection was stronger with age and some comorbidities—the findings can inform antiviral distribution to prevent death or respiratory failure.

CAR T cells may have the ability to be engineered and remain consistently functional, leading to more effective cancer treatment.

NCPA will appeal Express Scripts’ decision to reduce access to medications, following a contract with the Department of Defense.