Medicine

In a Healio Gastroenterology video exclusive, Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS, FACP, of the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, shared her untraditional path to leadership.

In an interview with Nephrology News & Issues, Cynthia Delgado, MD, FASN, said the first report on the inclusion of race in eGFR was published 22 years ago following the results of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make medicines affordable for our patients and support the health needs of every family in our nation. As physicians, now is the time to elevate the voices of our patients and act.

A digital medicine system appeared to improve clinical schizophrenia symptoms beyond the effects of oral pharmacotherapy alone, according to study results presented at Psych Congress.

Veterans who experienced military sexual trauma had elevated hypertension risk, according to results presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions.

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine details how researchers discovered a previously unknown genetic disorder that affects prenatal development in children and identified a potential cure.

During this year’s Women in Medicine Summit, Kelly Cawcutt, MD, MS, discussed the importance of properly using social media to network, promote important work and educate anyone willing to engage, saying it can “revolutionize medicine.”

A three-drug regimen of ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine and albendazole given as a single dose sterilizes adult filarial worms for at least 5 years, according to a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine, though this regimen may fail to clear circulating filarial antigen.

Despite improvements in ART over the last 4 to 5 years, there are still many patients with HIV not in care, and strategies are needed to “really reach everyone,” according to Joseph Eron, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Resistance to ART among patients with HIV is an important issue for all clinicians to be aware of, according to Joseph Eron, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.