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At least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic activity, or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity aerobic activity found to improve outcomes in patients with flu or pneumonia.

The panel corresponds to proteins that are abundant in treatment-resistant melanoma cells and may predict resistance to targeted treatment.

Study findings may help guide efforts to develop effective HIV vaccines and antibody-based HIV treatments.

When considering outsourcing, pharmacies should use a multistakeholder team to weigh pros and cons.

Common chronic pain conditions included in the analysis were fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, and musculoskeletal pain.

Pegfilgrastim-pbbk is a leukocyte growth factor developed to reduce the onset of infection in patients with non-myeloid malignancies administered myelosuppressive anticancer medications associated with a clinically significant rate of febrile neutropenia.

Preexposure prophylaxis use for HIV continues to be lower than desired in some populations.

Health care professionals should educate patients that it is possible to effectively manage pain without opioids.

Study evaluates the effect of long-acting monoclonal antibodies tixagevimab and cilgavimab treating COVID-19 symptoms and viral shedding.

Hospitalization costs from respiratory syncytial virus infection are driven by older age and comorbidities.

Precision medicine is rooted in the reality that the way patients respond to treatment is heavily affected by their individual genetic variability, their complex biology, and external factors.

Since the 2018 guideline’s publication, additional non-statin therapies such as bempedoic acid, evinacumab, and inclisiran, have been approved by the FDA for the management of hypercholesterolemia.

Diagnosing risk of frailty in patients hospitalized with heart failure is a safe and effective means of improving patient management.

Treatment-emergent adverse events were reported in a similar proportion of participants with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, both with and without immunocompromising conditions.

Approximately 56.6% of young adults with advanced heart disease prefer to be involved in end-of-life decisions if they were very ill, with nearly all patients saying that they would also like their parents to be involved.

Investigators of the phase 2 study also found a comparable reactogenicity to the individual influenza and COVID-19 vaccines from Novavax or authorized vaccine comparators.

Patients with HIV were no less likely to show a worse clinical presentation following tecovirimat treatment.

Brexpiprazole was associated with a statistically and clinically meaningful improvement in agitative behaviors caused by dementia compared to placebo.

Lili Wang, MD, PhD, discusses her research investigating how METTL3 regulates RNA splicing dysregulation and contributes to CLL growth.

Study shows that the nervous system of individuals experiencing post-COVID-19 fatigue is underactive in 3 key areas.

Investigators found that providing parents with a hypothetical scenario outlining why they should immunize their children against COVID-19 was effective in improving vaccination rates.

A new FDA policy would assess blood donor eligibility using a set of individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV.

Health systems must address drivers of attrition, turnover.

Patients with C. difficile who received clonal bacteria populations via biotherapeutic injection were able to repopulate their microbiota with commensal bacteria.

Individualized treatments like cell and gene therapies are poised to scale rapidly over the next decade.

Josh Marsh, vice president and general manager of Sonexus Access and Patient Support at Cardinal Health, discussed how patient assistance programs are leveraging technology.

Tackling racial disparities among health care providers can help improve disparities faced by patients.

Closely monitored, decentralized trials have also been shown to improve electronic patient reported outcomes to 92% compliance, according to ObvioHealth.

A daily low-dose form of vitamin D3 was more effective on cancer mortality than intake of a monthly high-dose form, especially for adults aged 70 years and older.

A novel collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and US Anesthesia Partners is working to drive evidence-based change in benzodiazepine use.