Internal Medicine

An expert discusses how allergies can make it easier for viruses to enter the body as well as the association between asthma and COVID-19 severity.

The complexities associated with the disease and lack of validated risk predictors makes such a model challenging to implement.

Ongoing trials are essential to confirming semalutide’s role in decreasing risk of chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes

A new cross-sectional study uncovers shortcomings in pivotal trials supporting new drug applications for opioid analgesics, which range from study design to duration.

As part of the TARGET-NASH study, researchers find 18% of NAFLD patients are prescribed opioids because of pain.

These recommendations were developed with the primary goal of improving outcomes in cardiovascular mortality.

Between 1999 and 2016, cardiovascular disease prevalence declined at a much faster for the highest-income earners than the rest of the population.

Because ADHD presents differently in females than it does in males, the disorder has been underdiagnosed in females for several years.

Mepolizumab will be used to treat both adult and pediatric patients with HES for at least 6 months without an identifiable non-hematologic secondary cause.

A study found that patients more commonly self-reported unintentional barriers to treatment adherence—such as forgetfulness and external influences—than intentional ones.

The treatment could also be used for Alzheimer disease and mid-stage Huntington disease for patients who suffer from greater cognitive deficits.

Testing all IBD patients for CMV can lead to a concerning overconsumption of resources as well as a delay in treatment.

For obese patients, both weight gain and loss was linked to an increase in the rate of incident venous thromboembolism.

An expert discusses the importance of getting vaccinated for the flu this year as well as strategies healthcare systems are taking to ensure easy access for patients.

These discrepancies are more pronounced in young, adolescent females and older adolescent males.

The highest suPAR tertile was linked to a 9.15-fold increase in the odds of an acute kidney injury.

This decrease in hospital admissions had no association with regional prevalence of COVID-19.

The cut points for LCT and nCD64 in Crohn’s disease were not previously known.

About 2/3 of children with asthma had been exposed to opioids prior to birth, according to a new retrospective study.

Gene addition and editing strategies have potential of curing sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent thalassemia, but there are still many obstacles that must be overcome.

Treatments for VTE in children fall short as they require frequent monitoring and include unpredictable food and drug interactions.

According to a retrospective claims database study, as many as 43.8% of assessed patients with open-angle glaucoma required a change from initial treatment.

Sumifilam could be the first Alzheimer treatment to improve several biomarkers.

Individuals in vulnerable populations had a higher proportion and odds of not being vaccinated within the past year.

Dr. Mali talks about advancements in treatment and screening for Wet AMD.