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Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, a common precursor to multiple myeloma, developed significantly more in individuals with obesity, according to a study published in Blood Advances.

Social determinants of health may predict rates of opioid prescriptions per beneficiary and opioid-related death, according to recently published results.

Patients with cancer enrolled in high-deductible health-care plans paid, on average, nearly 70% more in out-of-pocket medical expenses annually than those in low-deductible plans, according to a study in JAMA Oncology.

Shannon MacDonald, MD, never thought returning a patient’s phone call constituted “practicing medicine.”

Older patients undergoing immunotherapy for breast cancer experienced similar rates of immune-related adverse events as younger patients, according to a presenter at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA, has been appointed chair of the department of radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and chief of enterprise radiation oncology for Mass General Brigham.

SAN DIEGO — All 38 patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma responded to an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, results of a phase 1 study presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exhibition showed.

Cocoa extract supplementation given over 2 years was linked to benefits for cognition among older adults with unhealthy dietary patterns compared with placebo, according to study data published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Five obesity advocacy organization have issued a joint statement asking the FDA to mandate that all drug approval trials include people with obesity.

SAN DIEGO — Premature all-cause mortality in gout remains elevated vs. individuals without gout in the United States and United Kingdom, with worse rates reported among women, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2023.