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Children frequently ingest foreign objects — particularly during the ages of 6 months to 3 years. Although about 80% to 90% of foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously without difficulties, some may cause serious complications and require endoscopic or surgical removal depending on the type, size and shape of the object; its location in the gastrointestinal tract; and time since ingestion, according to a review published in Clinical Endoscopy.

The growing consensus in the kidney community is greater home dialysis use is essential to achieving clinical, patient quality-of-life and public policy objectives. Providers acknowledge the need to reframe how we think about delivering dialysis care to patients. As Adam Boehler, director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), notes, treatment for patients with kidney failure should be “transplant wherever possible; if not, [treatment at] home wherever possible; and it should be a last resort that people go to a dialysis center.”

NEW YORK — It is no surprise that dermatology is a “subject of massive disruption but what is surprising is that it is all good,” said health care strategist Nicholas Webb, here at the American Academy of Dermatology Summer Meeting.

In this installment of In Practice, Frederick L. Locke, MD, Co-Leader of the Immunology Program and Director of the Immune Cell Therapy Program at Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the side effects and toxicities of CAR T-cell treatments. Though he acknowledges they are common, he emphasizes that they should not hinder the referral of patients who are candidates for these potentially ‘lifesaving treatments.’