Laurie Toich, Assistant Editor

The critical beginning stages of HIV have been found to be less symptomatic than previously thought.

Telemedicine can be a good alternative for Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas.

HA15 causes melanoma cell death, but does not affect healthy cells.

Access to rehabilitation services increased 9.6% through Medicare.

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Certain barriers must be overcome before precision medicine is used instead of race-based prescribing.

An experimental hepatitis C virus inhibitor was able to slow down the symptoms of Zika in mice.

Patients with heart failure who exercise show an 18% decreased risk of all-cause mortality compared with patients who do not exercise.

About 89% of respondents used a rescue inhaler and as many as 1 in 3 respondents were misdiagnosed prior to asthma diagnosis.

Women with new-onset atrial fibrillation found to have a high risk of developing cancer in the first 3 months.

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Patients with multiple myeloma receiving ASCT showed a 10% increase in tumor cell reduction.

Approximately 77% of marketplace enrollees and 88% of Medicaid enrollees were satisfied with their coverage.

Anthracycline chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment may not cause decline in cognitive function.

Riluzole has been able to restore certain genes that impact cognitive function.

The United States decreased the rate of HIV incidence and transmission, but not enough to meet the goals outlined in 2010.

Opioid-related overdoses increased healthcare costs by 46%.

Women who underwent TAVR and were taking bivalrudin had similar major cardiac events and vascular complications as men.

CD2 is necessary for potent adaptive NK cells.

‘That’s What PBMs Do’ campaign is focused on showing consumers how beneficial pharmacy benefit managers are to the pharmaceutical industry.

Approximately 25% of patients develop heart failure within 4 years after the patients’ first heart attack.

Researchers found that 80% of HIV-positive patients had increased aortic inflammation after starting antiretroviral therapy.

The protein PSGL-1 can increase or inhibit the activity of T cells.

Premium increases are proposed from 5% to 44% for each state.

Animal models treated with celecoxib (Celebrex) showed a decreased rate of cancer growth.

Researchers explore differences in the use of fixed-dose combination drugs and single-drug formulations for tuberculosis.

The whole-joint gene expression profile for osteoarthritis discovered by researchers.

Patients with systemic sclerosis found that macitentan did not reduce new digital ulcers.

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Delivering growth hormone to the placenta found to increase fetus growth in mouse model.