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The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, maintained its position as No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Hospitals for pulmonology and lung surgery.

Researchers identified early signals of atherosclerosis in blood samples from young people who smoke tobacco cigarettes or vape, though to a lesser extent among the latter.

An increase in exacerbations and worse lung function was found in those with advanced COPD and blood eosinophil counts less than or equal to 100 compared with those with higher counts, according to study results published in CHEST.

Following a major price increase in 2010, the use of colchicine for gout declined while rheumatology and emergency department visits for the disease increased, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, has been appointed senior vice president of the clinical research division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA — A variety of pharmacologic and device-based approaches provides hope for effective and safe treatment of resistant hypertension, which can be “tedious but important” to diagnose, according to a speaker.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA, discusses a presentation on the benefits of the coronary artery calcium score at the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.

CHICAGO — The addition of ribociclib to endocrine therapy improved invasive DFS vs. endocrine therapy alone in patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer.

Adults with a coronary artery calcium score greater than 300 are at an equivalent risk for major CV events as treated patients with established atherosclerotic CVD, supporting the use of high-dose statins in this population, data show.

Women who have prediabetes before transition to menopause have a higher risk for sustaining a fracture later in life than women without prediabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.