Fatigue

Adjunctive transdermal testosterone was well tolerated but not more effective than placebo for symptoms of depression, fatigue or sexual dysfunction, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its top five viewed stories in June.

Just a spoonful of sugar from Mary Poppins during cancer treatment might have an effect, after all.

Six months after investigating fatigue in patients with IBD, 26% of patients developed new onset fatigue, demonstrating the substantial impact of fatigue on patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to data from Digestive Disease Week.

I am writing this on March 18, as the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic begins to hit home.

Treatment with afamelanotide was associated with improved clinical outcomes and a good safety profile in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria, according to a study published in JAMA Dermatology.

People who start a ketogenic diet may experience influenza-like symptoms in the first few weeks, according to a study published in Frontiers in Nutrition.

We are privileged to have a stellar group of discussants in this issue of Healio Rheumatology addressing the multiple facets of the placebo effect in the field of rheumatology. For a long time now, the ‘placebo effect’ has represented little more than a troublesome obstacle that clinical investigators — in the course of clinical trials with our growing armamentarium of therapeutics — must overcome to demonstrate that a drug or therapy is truly effective.

In a recent survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults, 86% reported not knowing the symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis, according to a press release from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Conversions of measurements from the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness TherapyFatigue to the PatientReported Outcomes Measurement Information System Fatigue, or PROMIS Fatigue, is both feasible and applicable in clinical trials for RA, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research.