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The American Society of Nephrology and Home Dialysis University are offering scholarships to improve home therapies education for nephrology fellows, according to a press release.

Access to a smartphone application for 1 year was associated with a reduction in the volume of alcohol that college students consumed, according to researchers.

ORLANDO — A mid-sized university with a universal masking mandate saw no increase in COVID-19 after eliminating physical distancing requirements, according to study findings.

The Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions announced that it will develop a new college of optometry and name Adam Hickenbotham, OD, MPH, PhD, as founding dean.

University students who experienced lockdowns due to COVID-19 exhibited a high prevalence of mental health issues, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Network Open.

ATLANTA — Biologic DMARDs were as efficacious among patients with rheumatoid arthritis aged 60 years and older at disease onset as it was among younger patients, with comparable rates of drug maintenance and adverse event discontinuation between the two groups, according to findings presented at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.

ATLANTA — Age at onset of psoriasis determines whether psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis starts first in patients with psoriatic arthritis, according to data from the PsART-international web-based registry presented here.

The Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology would like to thank all member societies that participated in this important event organized by the APAO Public Education Standing Committee. Special thanks go to the two subspecialty member societies, the Asia Cornea Society and the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society, for providing public educational materials for all APAO member societies to use.

The Research Foundation to Cure AIDS has purchased licensing rights to Chromovert, a cell-based biotechnology that detects and purifies rare cells.

In a study of more than 600 cities around the world, short-term exposure to air pollutants was linked to increased risks for all-cause, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality.