Drug-Related Side Effects And Adverse Reaction

PHILADELPHIA — In this video, Paul A. Offit, MD, discusses a panel at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress and Disease Prevention & Control Summit that covered vaccine safety.

In this video, Thomas Waddington, MD, assistant clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at City of Hope National Medical Center, discusses what pulmonologists should be staying up to date on in terms of lung cancer treatments.

Treatment preferences varied widely among patients with inflammatory bowel disease but were largely influenced by a desire for reduction in abdominal pain, according to data from the P-POWER IBD study presented at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Parents reported that two-thirds of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis demonstrate drug side effects that impact their quality of life within 1 year of diagnosis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Psychotropic adverse events that affect medication adherence are often non-life threatening and easy to treat, according to a presenter at the NEI Max Virtual Conference.

Although flares and immune-related adverse effects due to checkpoint inhibitor therapy can be frequent and potentially severe, they are “mostly manageable” without the need for discontinuation among patients with preexisting autoimmune diseases, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

In an interview with Healio, Elizabeth Plimack, MD, chief of genitourinary medical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, highlighted several exciting areas of research in renal cell carcinoma.