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PHILADELPHIA — In this video, Paul Kwo, MD, professor of medicine and director of hepatology at Stanford University, speaks with Healio about the underutilization of palliative care for patients with end-stage liver disease.

Patients with severe Behçet’s syndrome who received infliximab demonstrated better odds of achieving complete response at 22 weeks compared with those who used cyclophosphamide, according to head-to-head data published in NEJM Evidence.

Researchers developed a highly sensitive, analytic, quantitative immunofluorescence assay that may enable more patients with lung cancer to benefit from an approved targeted therapy.

ORLANDO — Medical residents can effectively teach high school students about lifestyle medicine and its principles, according to a presenter at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s annual conference.

PHILADELPHIA — Tirzepatide 15 mg produced similar weight loss results as bariatric surgery among patients with obesity but had a favorable safety profile, according to a presenter at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Deucravacitinib is superior to placebo for improving response across all domains of minimal disease activity criteria in patients with psoriatic arthritis at 16 weeks, according to data published in Rheumatology.

Individuals with chronic low back pain who participated in a virtual yoga class experienced a significant reduction in symptoms, according to results of a randomized study published in JAMA Network Open.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, John P. Berdahl, MD, shares pearls on how to decide between LASIK or PRK for patients who previously underwent cataract surgery.

The WikiGuidelines collaborative has published its third clinical practice guidance — this one on the prevention, diagnosis and management of UTIs.

PHILADELPHIA — In this video from the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Rutva A. Vora, BASc, discusses a pilot study that analyzed the impact of time from ED to OR on surgical outcomes in patients with hip fractures.