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Genomic cancer predisposition tests should be done with professional counseling, and the FDA should implement safeguards for direct-to-consumer products, according to a medical oncologist with expertise in cancer genetics.

A qualitative study yielded important insights about how patients, caregivers and clinicians define what truly is clinically meaningful.

SAN DIEGO — Psychological and neurocognitive screening may help monitor mental and physical health among people with sickle cell disease, according to a speaker at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Results presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting showed total wrist arthroplasty may supplant total wrist fusion as the gold standard treatment for older patients with OA.

An online obesity treatment and maintenance program resulted in significant weight loss among primary care patients, according to findings from a randomized study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Older transgender and gender-diverse patients on Medicare were more likely to use the ED — particularly for mental health care — than cisgender beneficiaries, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients who experience acute ischemic stroke may be at elevated risk for heart attack within 1 year of their index event, according to study findings presented during the International Stroke Conference.

Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, has been elected chair of the Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) in Personalized Cancer Medicine Association — WIN Consortium.

Although both are safe and effective, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was linked to greater protection and a slightly lower risk for adverse events compared with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in older adults, data in JAMA Network Open show.

BOSTON — Among nearly 500 patients with psoriasis in the United States, lower vitamin D levels in blood samples were associated with increasing psoriasis severity, according to research presented at NUTRITION.