
The prevention of preeclampsia may reduce severe maternal morbidity (SMM) risk in pregnant people.

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The prevention of preeclampsia may reduce severe maternal morbidity (SMM) risk in pregnant people.

Pregnant individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) are more likely to experience mental illness both during their pregnancy and in the first years after giving birth.

Efruxifermin is undergoing 3 phase 3 clinical trials to evaluate its safety, efficacy, and tolerability in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).

Some risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were renal impairment, delayed diagnosis, and hypertension.

Three experts from UPMC Health Plan highlight the importance of treating patients’ physical, mental, and social health when managing diabetes, rather than the disease alone.

Health care professionals, particularly pharmacists, can recommend that patients take over-the-counter supplements, such as melatonin, to facilitate REM sleep.

The model also predicted prevalent cases of decompensated cirrhosis would more than triple, incident liver cancer cases would nearly double, and transplant almost quadruple.

Although there were increases in prescriptions during the studies’ durations, the proportion of anxiety or pain medications on the same day of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion procedures were low.

Statin use is not associated with a change in incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) and estimated glomerular filtration rate in adult patients aged 65 and older.

Additionally, the authors observe that childhood-onset epilepsy is associated with an earlier age at the onset of amyloidosis.

The authors note that transferrin saturation levels may be a modifiable risk factor of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression and all-cause mortality.

The authors note that this may cause disruptions in the metabolic stability of lipid processing and storage, impacting the liver and accelerating damaging adaptative responses.

Despite these findings, navacaprant was generally well-tolerated and safe in patients with major depressive disorder.

Memantine/donepezil and everolimus are used to treat dementia of the Alzheimer type and tuberous sclerosis complex-associated subependymal giant cell astrocytoma, respectively.

The study shows benefits when Hecolin (HEV 239; Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co Ltd) is administered in 2 doses, rather than the typical 3-dose regimen.

Black and Native American patients were about 2 to 3 times more likely to die of cancer compared with White patients, and women younger than 50 years were affected more than male patients.

The study found that internalizing and externalizing factors, brain maturation, and decreasing volumes of brain regions were linked to eating disorders.

The authors found that humidity, cold and heat waves, and air pollution led to a higher likelihood of asthma- and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related hospitalizations.

The reduction in cardiovascular end points and the increase in adverse events observed in a clinical trial were largely transportable to trial-eligible chronic kidney disease (CKD) populations from clinical practice.

Compared with chemotherapy, Dato-DXd demonstrates favorable median progression-free survival and overall survival in a phase 3 clinical trial.

The authors note that future research will observe personality changes when psilocybin is used in patients with opioid-use disorder.

Despite the reductions in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), grade 3 and 4 adverse events were not uncommon.

This is mirikizumab’s second FDA-approved indication in inflammatory bowel disease.

The test meets a critical unmet need for patients with Alzheimer disease who have not yet been undiagnosed.

Severe alcohol-associated hepatitis has limited effective pharmacological therapies, emphasizing the need for treatment options.

The findings suggest that patients with alopecia areata (AA) who also have asthma may benefit from increased clinical monitoring and earlier intervention.

Patients with methotrexate (MTX)-induced acute kidney injury treated with glucarpidase were 2.70-times more likely to have kidney recovery and recover faster.

Women living in rural are more likely to report experiencing psychological and somatic menopause symptoms compared with those in urban and suburban areas.

According to the investigators, BBO-8520 represents a first-in-class approach to treating patients with previously treated KRASG12C-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

If approved, nipocalimab can treat antibody positive individuals with generalized myasthenia gravis.