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REPORTING FROM ENTOMOLOGY 2020 Psychiatrists with expertise in delusional infestation have some advice for dermatologists, infectious disease specialists, and primary care physicians who encounter affected patients: If you want to [...]

ISRAELI INVESTIGATORS have now shown in a pilot double-blind, placebocontrolled, randomized trial that breathing enriched oxygen on a nightly basis resulted in clinically meaningful symptomatic improvement in mild to moderate [...]

Older men with a novel adult-onset, severe autoinflammatory syndrome known by the acronym VEXAS are likely hiding in plain sight in many adult rheumatology, hematology, and dermatology practices. New clinical [...]

COPENHAGEN -The tantalizing prospect that statins could be repurposed as adjunctive antidepressant drugs in a defined subgroup of patients with major depression is finally about to undergo rigorous testing. Several [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM ESPID 2019 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA -- There is good news and bad news about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination as a means of preventing cervical cancer. The bad news [...]

ESTES PARK, COLO.--Primary care providers are arguably the health care professionals best positioned to put a major dent in the ongoing--and perplexing--increase in early-onset colorectal cancer, said gastroenterologist Swati G. [...]

SAN ANTONIO--Oral supplementation with a proprietary blend of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) improved all of the core symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in a large open-label study, Magnus Simren, MD, [...]

REPORTING FROM THE ESC CONGRESS 2019 PARIS -- Arguably one of the most important and far-reaching studies presented at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology didn't take [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the 21st-century epidemic in liver disease, Zobair M. Younossi, MD, declared at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians. The [...]

REPORTING FROM THE AHS ANNUAL MEETING SAN FRANCISCO -- Many migraine patients are up to their necks in opioid overuse, according to studies presented at the annual meeting of the [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- It's a widespread misconception among internists: Implementing an office-based adult immunization program is a potential financial sinkhole and just isn't worth the hassle. That's utterly wrong, Jason [...]

ORLANDO--Long-term treatment with febuxostat in gout patients with comorbid cardiovascular disease conferred significantly higher risks of both cardiovascular death and all-cause mortality, compared with allopurinol, in the Food and Drug [...]

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII -- The American Board of Dermatology has thoroughly overhauled the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process in response to pointed criticism from dermatologists, and the revised program has received [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO. -- The oral sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are the focus of a slew of ongoing phase 3 clinical trials in patients with symptomatic heart failure but no diabetes. [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO. -- The decades-long belief that aspirin is beneficial for primary prevention of cardiovascular events was utterly dashed by three major randomized clinical trials during the space of a [...]

REPORTING FROM THE ECNP CONGRESSBARCELONA -- Young patients recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder are at double the 30-year risk of cardiovascular disease, compared with the general population, and their 'unaffected' [...]

Only about 30% or fewer of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) on therapy achieve disease remission by any definition. One reason for this may be inadequate attention to common comorbid [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- After a lengthy drought in the development of major new headache medications, it was finally raining successful phase 3 clinical trial data for novel drugs at the [...]

KAUAI, HAWAII -- Dermatologists don't ordinarily peruse the ophthalmology literature. So they may be unaware that the American Academy of Ophthalmology has issued revised recommendations on weight-based dosing of hydroxychloroquine [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO.--More than 960,000 new cases of heart failure will occur in the United States this year--and most of them could have been prevented, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, asserted at [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE EADV CONGRESS GENEVA -- The emergence of Janus kinase inhibitors as a promising novel drug class for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD) was a major [...]

FROM INNOVATIONS IN DERMATOLOGY SECUKINUMAB proved highly effective at improving skin symptoms and quality of life in 6- to 17-year-old patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis at 24 weeks [...]

VIENNA -- The year 2016 has brought answers to two key questions regarding the off-label use of intravenous ketamine in patients with treatment-resistant depression: What's the optimal dosing schedule? And [...]

PARIS -- Many psychiatrists have no inkling of how often the antipsychotic agents they prescribe cause hyperprolactinemia-related sexual dysfunction, or the serious negative consequences these common side effects have on [...]

FROM THE EADV CONGRESS CHRONIC LEG ULCERS of all types feature a significant inflammatory component for which medical compression therapy is absolutely the best form of anti-inflammatory therapy, Elena Conde [...]

AT ICAAC 2015 SAN DIEGO -- The potent synergistic benefits of coadministration of rotavirus vaccine and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in young children are uniquely highlighted by a natural experiment conducted [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM THE ANNUAL INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM ESTES PARK, COLO. -- Physicians who choose not to recommend daily aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease have nothing to apologize [...]

Activated circulating basophils appear to play a key role in mediating the underappreciated phenomenon of acute-on-chronic itch flares in atopic dermatitis, Brian S. Kim, MD, said at MedscapeLive's annual Las [...]

REPORTING FROM THE CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCIES FORUM Initial evidence suggests that the deliberate delays in melanoma care that occurred during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place lockdown last spring had a significant negative impact [...]

FROM THE EADV CONGRESS A HISTORY OF PRIOR DEPRESSIVE illness conferred a sevenfold increased risk of developing treatment-limiting mood symptoms in patients on isotretinoin for acne in a large Scottish [...]

FROM THE EADV CONGRESS Biologic therapy for psoriasis may protect against severe COVID-19, according to two large observational studies from Italy and France presented at the virtual annual congress of [...]

COVID-19-positive patients undergoing an invasive strategy lor acute coronary syndrome-presented hours later than uninfected historical controls, they had a far higher incidence of cardiogenic shock, and their in-hospital mortality rate [...]

One of the hottest topics now in psychiatry is the possibility of repurposing long-established cardiovascular medications for treatment of patients with serious mental illness (SMI), Livia De Picker, MD, PhD, [...]

VIENNA -- The marquee event at this year's annual congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology --the one everyone was eagerly awaiting--was the first presentation of two large, [...]

EXPERT ANALYSIS AT THE ECNP CONGRESS VIENNA--What a difference a decade can make in the world of psychiatry. Take, for example, the case of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, better known as MDMA or, [...]

VIENNA -- Generalized anxiety disorder in men over age 40 was independently associated with a greater than twofold increased risk of death due to cancer during 15 years of follow-up, [...]

Melasma has such a high recurrence rate that, once the facial hyperpigmentation has been cleared, it's best that treatment never entirely stops, Amit G. Pandya, MD, said at the virtual [...]

Two oral agents with novel mechanisms of action in schizophrenia generated much audience interest after acing large phase 2 clinical trials presented at the virtual congress of the European College [...]

FROM ECNP 2020 Maybe the hipsters patronizing trendy oxygen bars seeking elevation of mood back in the prepandemic era were actually onto something--because Israeli investigators have now shown in a [...]

A 'growing and disturbing' increase in suicidal behavior among black youth' has quietly been underway in the United States during the past several decades, even while rates in white and [...]

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII -- The prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis is elevated among patients with atopic dermatitis (AD)--and it pays to know their major sources of risk, according to Jonathan I. [...]

Major advances in understanding the nuanced mechanisms underlying atopic dermatitis have led to a plethora of novel topical, oral, and injectable biologic agents now in advanced-stage development, Jonathan I. Silverberg, [...]

SCREENING FOR depression in patients with atopic dermatitis is a vital task that's woefully neglected--and dermatologists aren't doing any better a job of it than primary care physicians, Jonathan I. [...]

LAHAINA, HAWAII -- The treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma is rapidly becoming much less toxic and more effective--and dermatologists have a key role in making this happen, Paul Nghiem, MD, [...]

A SUCCESSFUL VACCINE for prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection will probably need to incorporate T-cell epitopes to induce a long-term memory T-cell immune response to the virus, Mehrdad Matloubian, MD, PhD, [...]

A SINGLE 3-HOUR-LONG group psychosocial intervention designed specifically for patients in intensive outpatient programs for addiction treatment to prevent future suicide resulted in significantly improved knowledge and attitudes regarding suicide [...]

A single 3-hour-long group psychosocial intervention designed specifically for patients in intensive outpatient programs for addiction treatment to prevent future suicide resulted in significantly improved knowledge and attitudes regarding suicide. [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO. -- Physical activity is potent medicine, and it doesn't take all that much of it to derive the maximum cardiovascular benefit: namely, the equivalent of a brisk hour-long [...]

MADRID -- A growing recognition that atopic dermatitis (AD) patients on dupilumab are prone to develop a paradoxical head and neck erythema that's clinically and histologically distinct from their background [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Intensive blood pressure control in hypertensive adults at high cardiovascular risk adds a mean 6 months to 3 years of life expectancy in age-dependent fashion, compared with the [...]