Internal Medicine

Many patients with paradoxical vocal fold motion disorder are misdiagnosed, and instead believe they are dealing with asthma. But in many cases, their symptoms do not respond to therapies.

A new study finds that higher AGE consumption is associated with increased odds of wheezing.

Fewer patients who received masitinib 4.5 mg/kg/day reached severe dementia stage.

Peter Lio, MD, discusses the various underlying causes behind itch.

The study reports that risk is greater in female patients and those born small for gestational age. However, overall causality is still uncertain.

FibroGen will submit additional data for the New Drug Application.

Oseltamivir and zanamivir are compared in acute treatment of patients with severe influenza type-A H1N1 in China.

Novartis indicates they will address manufacturing issues cited by the FDA.

Patients with any presence of small vessel disease had a 2-times greater risk of recurrent ischemic stroke than those without.

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles Rice were awarded with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

FLT3-mutated patients achieved favorable antileukemic responses regardless of anthracycline type or gilteritinib dosing regimen.

Despite these findings, there is still uncertainty as to whether mitigating symptoms of depression can lower cardiovascular risk.

The agency is expected to rule on the Novartis treatment in 2021.

The FDA approvals of biologics for atopic dermatitis and psoriasis have ushered in a new era for the once-stagnant field of pediatric dermatology.

There are numerous individual and systemic barriers that preclude this vulnerable population from taking preventative measures.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the US has shown its lessening interest in mitigating the more manageable virus, influenza. Is there a chance to change course?

Preschool children with asthma, food allergies, and pollen/fur or dust mite allergies are at increased risk of having concurrent mental health problems.

GalSafe pigs may potentially be used as a source of medical products, free of detectable alpha-gal sugar.

Up to 83% of evaluated individuals indicated that their ocular symptoms began within two weeks of their other COVID-19 symptoms

Long-term care facility residents and healthcare workers will receive the first of millions prepared doses in the US.

Children with sickle cell disease have the opportunity to learn about STEM concepts in the context of their own condition.

Despite the increasing push for using HCV-positive organs to expand the donor pool, hundreds of livers allografts from donors are still not being used in transplantation.

Proactive efforts throughout the pandemic must be made to ensure this gap in primary and preventative care can be filled.

After a sudden reversal and complex analyses, aducanumab’s future rests in the hands of the FDA while the community stands split on if the available data are enough to justify an approval.

A study finds that children with cognitive or emotional deficits trended towards an increased healthcare utilization.