New York University School Of Medicine

Children and adolescents who face more racial discrimination from peers, teachers, other adults and society have a higher BMI and waist circumference, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

SAN DIEGO — “Now more than ever,” physicians need to manage opioid use disorder with pharmacological treatment in the primary care setting, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

For more than a decade, the medical community as a whole, and particularly the field of rheumatology, has been trying to move away from opioids for the management of chronic pain — with varying degrees of success.

Research suggests that women are more vulnerable to common mental health conditions compared with men at all stages of the life course, which can also have important implications for CVD risk.

Severe inflammation among individuals with acute myeloid leukemia limits their bodies’ ability to kill cancerous blood cells, according to study results.

CHICAGO — In stable patients with ischemia, there was no difference between an invasive strategy and a conservative strategy of optimal medical therapy in mortality at 5.7 years, according to results of the ISCHEMIA-EXTEND study.

The risk for heart disease, stroke, disability and mortality among adults with diabetes is higher for those diagnosed at age 50 to 59 years than those diagnosed at age 70 years or older, according to study findings.

Short telomeres were strongly associated with prevalent interstitial lung disease among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to cross-sectional study results published in Respiratory Medicine.

When planning their next steps after a cancer diagnosis, most patients don’t put a trip to the dentist at the top of their to-do list.

Researchers at New York University, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center have developed and tested a two-step approach that uses whole-exome sequencing to find genes and pathways that predict response to immunotherapy.