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A cohort of U.S. children with type 1 diabetes had a decrease in mean glucose level and glucose management indicator during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the prior year, according to study data.

Patients infected with influenza are more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 10 years after infection when compared with controls, according to data published in JAMA Neurology.

A recent analysis showed that Medicare beneficiaries are receiving more outpatient care from specialists without increased engagement with their primary care providers.

Use of a comprehensive injury surveillance and prevention program may significantly reduce injury-related health care costs in NCAA Division I athletics, according to published results.

In this video, Pasi Jänne, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discussed studies looking at combining therapies with sotorasib. Those combinations included sotorasib and trametinib for KRAS p.G12C-mutated solid tumors and sotorasib and afatinib for KRAS p.G12C mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

In this video, Pasi Jänne, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses a session on KRAS mutant lung cancers presented at AACR-NCI-EORTC. In the session, new KRAS inhibitors that bind to the novel mutations were discussed.

Adults with diabetes with cardiomyopathy were at significantly higher risk for developing incident HF, according to new data published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A randomized phase 3 trial designed to evaluate elacestrant for patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer met both of its primary endpoints, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

In a recent editorial, researchers encouraged the normalization of medical emoji across the health care community, with the intent of providing accessible and effective means of communication to patients in the digital age.

Among patients who received transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, mitral valve surgery was associated with risks for morbidity and mortality that were not negligible, according to researchers, with less than 10% undergoing the procedure.