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'Anytime you have a maternal death, it sticks with you for life,' said Elliott Main, MD, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Stanford (Calif.) University and one of the nation [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM ADA 2019 SAN FRANCISCO -- Type 2 diabetes is much more aggressive in adolescents than in adults, and by the time those with youth-onset diabetes reach their [...]

THE INFLUENZA VACCINE is only about 36% effective this year, preventing infections in just over a third of people who receive it, according to the Feb. 16 issue of Morbidity [...]

Not too long ago at the Dana-Farber/ Brigham and Women's Cancer Center in Boston, a woman with widely metastatic melanoma, who had been planning her own funeral, was surprised when [...]

COMBINATION TORIPALIMAB and axitinib produced promising early results in patients with metastatic mucosal melanoma, according to a presentation made as part of the American Society of Clinical Oncology virtual scientific [...]

When Stephen Tyring, MD, PhD, an infectious disease dermatologist, started his career in the early 1980s, he said 'we were diagnosing Kaposi's sarcoma right and left We would see a [...]

AT THE END OF 6 MONTHS of low-dose pomalidomide (Pomalyst), more than half of men who have sex with men had partial or complete clearance of long-standing, grade 3 anal [...]

The take-home message from a growing number of recent COVID-19 case reports is that the infection might be far more than a respiratory disease. Although a cause-and-effect relationship is unknown, [...]

As the 2019 novel coronavirus story unfolds, the most important thing for clinicians in the United States to do is ask patients who appear to have the flu if they, [...]

As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus story unfolds, the most important thing for clinicians in the United States to do is ask patients who appear to have the flu if they, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Patients with alcohol use disorder reported a substantial decrease in drinking days, drinks per drinking day, and cravings in an ongoing trial of psilocybin at New York [...]

SANOFI HASN'T GIVEN UP on its sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT) 1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin (Zynquista) for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) despite a recent 8-to-8 split decision on recommendation for approval from [...]

Concerns about potential risks about the use of spironolactone for acne during the COVID-19 pandemic were raised on social media last month, but spironolactone and other androgen blockers might actually [...]

OXYGEN SUPPLEMENTATION for pregnant women with COVID-19 should begin when saturations fall below 94%, according to physicians at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. That's a bit higher [...]

A mid the COVID-19 pandemic, defer therapeutic lymphadenectomy for stage III melanoma and opt instead for treatment with checkpoint or BRAF / MEK inhibitors, except when metastatic nodes are threatening [...]

Skin manifestations were observed in about one-fifth of a group of patients with COVID-19 in the Alessandro Manzoni Hospital in Lecco, in northern Italy. Dermatologists there were pulled from their [...]

WITH ROUND THE CLOCK hand washing and use of personal protection equipment, skin issues are emerging among health care workers in areas hit hard by COVID-19. Almost 75% of doctors [...]

THE MEDIAN highest pain score in a randomized trial of 38 women undergoing vulvar biopsies was 25.7 mm lower, on a 100-mm visual analogue scale, when they received 5% lidocaine-prilocaine [...]

Cognitive screening of 141 clinicians 70 years or older at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital identified 18 with cognitive deficits likely to impair their ability to practice medicine. Six retired [...]

ATLANTA -- Methotrexate, in combination with prednisone, might be emerging as the go-to option for idiopathic granulomatous mastitis, investigators from Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, said. Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis [...]

REPORTING FROM ACR 2019 ATLANTA -- Pediatric Down syndrome arthritis is more aggressive and severe than juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), but it's underrecognized and under-treated, according to reports at the [...]

ATLANTA -- Dutch investigators at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology made a good case for 6 weeks of low-dose prednisolone to help people with hand osteoarthritis [...]

Cognitive screening of 141 clinicians 70 years or older at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital identified 18 with cognitive deficits likely to impair their ability to practice medicine, according to [...]

Cognitive screening of 141 clinicians 70 years or older at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital identified 18 with cognitive deficits likely to impair their ability to practice medicine. Six retired [...]

ATLANTA -- Black race was the single greatest predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in systemic lupus erythematosus, with black patients having an 18-fold higher risk than white patients from [...]

CHICAGO--The risk of cardiovascular and hypotension-related events is higher with alpha-blockers than with other hypertension drugs, but almost 20 years after the pivotal ALLHAT study first raised safety concerns, they [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM PHM 2018 ATLANTA -- Everyone has to be on the same page when it comes to treating hospitalized young patients with anorexia nervosa, according to experts at [...]

ATLANTA -- An asthma medication ratio below 0.5 nearly doubles the risk of children ending up in the hospital with an acute asthma exacerbation, according to researchers from the Medical [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM ICCLE 2018 ORLANDO -- The Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib (Xeljanz) may bring cutaneous dermatomyositis (DM) under control when the more usual systemic options fail, according to Ruth [...]

ORLANDO -- Dermatologists should not give up on antimalarials if hy droxychloroquine does not work for a patient with cutaneous lupus erythematosus, according to Anthony Fernandez, MD, PhD, director of [...]

ORLANDO -- It's safe to switch many Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes to human insulins to save money on analogues, according to a review of 14,635 members of CareMore, [...]

CHICAGO -- Spreading calories out over three regular meals a day, instead of six small ones, helps patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus lose weight and better control their blood [...]

New use of inhaled long-acting [beta.sub.2] agonists or long-acting antimuscarinic antagonists was associated with a 1.5-fold increased cardiovascular risk within 30 days of initiation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIF.--If blood pressure isn't measured the way it was in SPRINT, it shouldn't be treated all the way down to the SPRINT target of less than 120 mm Hg; [...]

SEATTLE -- If your hospital's methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rate is less than 10%, cefazolin is a reasonable empiric choice for pediatric acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (AHO). It covers the usual suspects: [...]

REPORTING FROM JOINT HYPERTENSION 2019 NEW ORLEANS -- An arm cuff that's one size too small in children will artificially elevate blood pressure 5 mm Hg, while one size too [...]

BALTIMORE -- Comprehensive respiratory pathogen panels (RPAN) cannot be relied on to detect pertussis, a study found. Respiratory pathogen panels are popular because they test for many things at once, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- There's no need to wait for Western blot results to differentiate Lyme arthritis from septic arthritis in children, as long as your lab, like many, uses the [...]

SEATTLE -- The more concentrated urine is in newborns, the more you can trust negative nitrite tests to rule out urinary tract infections, according to investigators at the University of [...]

SEATTLE -- Procalcitonin, a marker of bacterial infection, rises and peaks sooner than C-reactive protein (CRP), and is especially useful to help rule out invasive bacterial infections in young infants [...]

SEATTLE -- Adding a 3-day course of azithromycin to treatment regimens of children hospitalized with asthma did not shorten length of stay or bring other benefits in a randomized, blinded [...]

BALTIMORE -- Marijuana is a not a good idea during pregnancy, and it's an even worse idea when women are being treated for opioid addiction, according to an investigation from [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Serial ketamine infusions eliminated suicidal ideation in more than two-thirds of patients at a psychiatry office in Connecticut but at significantly higher doses than those recently approved [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Under an accountable care contract with airplane maker Boeing, the University of Washington, Seattle, increased the rate of depression remission from about 10% to 35%, and the [...]

BALTIMORE -- Marijuana is a not a good idea during pregnancy, and it's an even worse idea when women are being treated for opioid addiction, according to an investigation from [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE SDEF HAWAII DERMATOLOGY SEMINAR WAIKOLOA, HAWAII -- Since its approval in 2017, dupilumab (Dupixent) has proven to be a solid addition to the atopic dermatitis (AD) [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- An expert in obsessive-compulsive disease had some surprising advice at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting for treatment of adults with refractory illness. He endorsed amphetamines, caffeine, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus in the United States increased 6% a year during 2001-2011, for a cumulative increase of 59.4%, according to investigators. Nationwide prevalence [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus in the United States increased 6% a year during 2001-2011, for a cumulative increase of 59.4%, according to investigators from the [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE SDEF HAWAII DERMATOLOGY SEMINAR WAIKOLOA, HAWAII -- It's easy to misdiagnose scabies in infants because it doesn't present with the usual signs and symptoms in this [...]