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NEW YORK — In this video, Jacob R. McLean, DO, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, recaps his presentation on adolescent STI screening and treatment at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

NEW YORK — In this video, C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, describes how to treat common infections in young athletes, including mononucleosis, Staphylococcus aureus and herpes simplex virus.

WASHINGTON — Patients with polymyalgia rheumatica were more likely to discontinue steroids after treatment with sarilumab than methotrexate, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

SAN DIEGO — Retreatment with nucleos(t)ide analogue therapy for relapse after withdrawal did not affect hepatitis B surface antigen seroclearance among patients with chronic HBV infection, according to a researcher at The Liver Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Dactylitis, psoriasis and other non-musculoskeletal manifestations of psoriatic arthritis can be accurately monitored through patient self-reporting, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

CHICAGO — Exenatide, an IV GLP-1 receptor agonist, did not improve clinical outcomes compared with placebo in patients undergoing heart surgery, according to the results of the GLORIOUS trial.

SAN DIEGO — Preemptive continuous renal replacement therapy after therapeutic plasma exchange reduced mortality and improved other outcomes in patients with acute liver failure and cerebral edema, according to data from The Liver Meeting.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Euretina congress, Matteo Forlini, MD, discusses a Vit-Buckle Society session on surgical challenges.

CHICAGO — Catheter ablation improved outcomes compared with antiarrhythmic drug therapy in patients with ventricular tachycardia and ischemic cardiomyopathy, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

WASHINGTON — Practices that join the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry report “doubled to tripled” rates of improvement in rheumatoid arthritis function and disease activity assessment, according to data.