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Through counseling and advocacy, primary care providers can play an important role in preventing firearm injury, according to experts.

Chewing gum containing xylitol before conception and during pregnancy was associated with reduced preterm birth and low birth weight deliveries for women in Malawi, according to cluster-randomized trial data published in Med.

The GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide may not only add another therapeutic option for chronic kidney disease, but it could also lead to changes in the way clinicians treat the condition.

CHICAGO — In this video, Joan W. Miller, MD, chair of ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear, discusses study results presented at the AAO meeting on ONL1204 from ONL Therapeutics.

Monique A. Hartley-Brown, MD, MMSc, turns life challenges into the desire and initiative to “change things for the better.”

Children with obesity have increased risk for type 2 diabetes if they are diagnosed with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

CHICAGO — U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates have improved since the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, researchers reported.

Greater adherence to American dietary guideline recommendations appeared linked with reduced likelihood of prostate cancer progression among men undergoing active surveillance, study results showed.

WASHINGTON — Biosimilar infliximab use is significantly more common among new users vs. those who started with the originator, and particularly less likely among Medicare beneficiaries, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

Adverum Biotechnologies reported positive 52-week data from the phase 2 LUNA trial as well as long-term follow-up results from the OPTIC trial of Ixo-vec in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.