Gillian McGovern, Editor

Not only did the Navya-Patient Preference Tool help patients with decision-making, but groups who used the tool were more likely to receive their preferred form of surgery.

Compared with sulfonylurea, these add-on treatments were also associated with fewer diabetes-related cardiovascular and renal complications as well as avoiding hypoglycemia.

The results also indicate an association with increased risk of colorectal and noncolorectal gastrointestinal cancers as body mass index increases over time.

The manager of patient support services at St. Luke’s Cancer Center discusses the significance of Reaching Out for Healthy Women and how female patients can receive support from this initiative.

Lack of awareness, cultural beliefs, and physician preferences may influence whether minority patients receive palliative care during metastatic breast cancer treatment.

Not only did enterococci promote C. difficile pathogenesis, but it was also shown to provide fermentable amino acids, facilitating its virulence agitated gastrointestinal tracts.

The study authors suggest that after initiating alpelisib, patients should be proactive by improving glycemic status to reduce the risk of developing hyperglycemia.

Environmental factors may change sleep patterns over time, which subsequently affects rapid eye movement sleep.

The combined enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and pembrolizumab treatment is recommended for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-containing therapy.

At a 6-month follow-up, supplemental creatine intervention significantly improved scores for fatigue symptoms and tissue bioenergetics related to COVID-19 infection.

Maintaining a purpose in life has the potential to reduce apathy related to dementia and cognitive decline.

The House Committee members examined pricing tactics by PBMs and how they are harming patients across the country.

The analysis results showed no statistically significant impact on either outcome, but results from prior prospective studies suggest that intravenous immunoglobulin may lengthen hospital stay for patients with severe COVID-19.

In addition to identifying strategies to reduce the adverse effects of sleep and circadian disruption, the study authors identify the impact of obesity on sleep.

Research shows a peak of highly cited COVID-19 studies at the end of 2021 and a significant downward trend by the end of 2022.

The CEO of Yseop discusses how AI can have a positive impact in the development of high quality medical writing due to its efficiency and ability to reduce long, tedious tasks for writers.

Compared with COVID-19 vaccination alone, recent study findings show health care workers who received both a COVID-19 booster and influenza vaccinations did not have lower immune response or more frequent adverse events.

Experts agreed that it was appropriate for patients who use methamphetamine or cocaine to continue opioid use if clinician monitoring was increased and tapering was avoided.

While monitoring influenza virus resistance as it develops, researchers are prioritizing further investigations to decrease the risk of resistant strains.

Having 2 drug classes available for influenza is significant, but it is important to investigate other treatments prior to the pandemic, a new study indicates.

Compared to chemotherapy alone, the combined nivolumab and ipilimumab treatment more than tripled the overall survival rate at 6 years in patients with PD-L1 expression <1%.

California is possibly on the verge of signing a bill that would decriminalize the personal possession of natural psychedelics for those aged 21 years and older.

The CDK12/13 inhibitor will be tested for efficacy and safety in patients with advanced solid tumors, such as breast, ovarian, and Ewing Sarcoma.

Although findings indicate a relationship between vitamin D and mood disorders, further research is needed to clarify efficacy of specific vitamin D levels, as well as supplement dose and form.

Patients who received amivantamab plus chemotherapy or amivantamab without chemotherapy presented better outcomes compared to chemotherapy alone.

Combining T and B cell vaccines could induce a strong enough immune response and protect against HIV-1 infection, although the science is not fully developed.

In addition to overall survival, main efficacy outcomes, such as progression-free survival, objective response rate, and time to response, were compared to chemotherapy alone.

If approved, alectinib would be the only anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor to show reductions in risk of recurrence or death for those with early-stage lung cancer.

Additional research is needed to further evaluate whether adequate emotional support is linked to improvements in health-related quality of life in adults diagnosed with other cancer.

Although the pandemic has negatively influenced the care that patients with cardiovascular conditions receive, the study authors found that there were not significant inequities regarding patients’ race.