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Fecal microbiota transplantation may result in a slight reduction in serious adverse events, but the confidence intervals around the summary estimate were wide in immunocompetent adults with recurrent C. difficile infection.

The analysis, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates glycan trimming also keeps the antibody response away from immunodominant glucan holes and patches.

The median change from baseline at week 24 in the 6-minute walk distance was 34.4 m in the sotatercept group and 1 m in the placebo group among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Analysis focuses on couples in the greater New Haven area in Connecticut between October 2020 and August 2021.

The market for digital therapeutics products is expected to grow given increasing global access to smart technologies, their cost-effectiveness, and the need for patient-specific treatments.

Both barriers and facilitating factors, as well as a history of STIs, are associated with recent PrEP use among urban transgender women.

Pharmacists were asked about their levels of burnout, drivers and symptoms of this burnout, and what steps their workplaces had taken to improve the issue.

Cate Lockhart, PharmD, PhD, executive director of the Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium, discussed the growing biosimilars landscape .

Infants diagnosed with invasive Group B Streptococcus meningitis had an increased risk of developing epilepsy if the mother was of lower income.

Prediagnostic weight loss could be an important marker for colorectal cancer diagnosis.

The SUNRISE-3 trial is investigating its use in high-risk patients regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status.

While the demand for professionals adept in the ability to work with big data is at an all-time high, there remains a significant lack of skilled talent.

Study results indicate a decrease in the exclusion of older adults but no significant change for individuals who are immunocompromised.

Even before the Dobbs ruling overturned country-wide reproductive rights, the oncology field was already facing a dearth of maternal care access challenges.

Six weeks after infusion of GD2-CART01, 9 of 27 patients (33%) with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma had a complete response or maintained a complete response.

The data were published during Black Maternal Health Week.

Lowering blood pressure could be dangerous for people with normal blood pressure.

Infusion reactions in the switching group did not occur with switching, but rather only with reference trastuzumab administration.

Annual Asembia summit features insights from key opinion leaders, networking events, and continuing education sessions for pharmacists, pharmacy staff and stakeholders.

The results of a review, published in Cureus, show that the medications reduced the risk of HF.

Efficacy and safety data for BeiGene’s therapy shows positive results for individuals with advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

As psychedelic medicine comes further into cancer care, pharmacists will be an important part of the interdisciplinary team in screening and evaluating patients for suitability for psychedelic medicine.

Clinicians are often focused on reducing brain damage after traumatic injury, but considering nutrition is an important component to healing.

All-cause inpatient mortality or discharge to hospice was lower for patients who received dexamethasone within 48 hours of either admission or escalation in oxygen support.

Results of a review show that lessons learned from the pandemic apply to the respiratory syncytial virus.

The ChatGPT technology represents a breakthrough in the field of AI, with implications for its use in a wide range of applications.

Sixty years after the first hormonal birth control pill was marketed to women, men still have limited options with variable efficacy for birth control.

Worldwide, the human immune system tends to make the same antibodies when targeting viruses, which can modify their structure to avoid detection.

VAX-24 is designed to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumonia, which can be most serious for infants, young children, older adults, and those with immune deficiencies or some chronic health conditions.

Host Christina Madison, PharmD, BCACP, AAHIVP, sat down with Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD, FAPhA, a clinical professor in the college of pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island