University Of California San Diego

SAN FRANCISCO — Spanish-speaking women preferred using audio-only technology for contraceptive care obtained via telemedicine, and the use of interpreters and technology were not perceived as barriers to care, researchers reported.

A consortium recommended classifying people with a high risk for pancreatic cancer into subtypes based on family history and germline variants, according to findings published in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Anorexia nervosa during pregnancy was associated with several adverse neonatal outcomes, such as preterm and small for gestational age birth, compared with women without eating disorders, researchers reported.

More than one-third of states’ Department of Motor Vehicles websites did not have instructions on how physicians can report medically impaired drivers, according to a recent study.

Children and adults using a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system had fewer cases of severe hypoglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis than what was previously observed in historical data, according to study findings.

SAN DIEGO — Pregnant patients with concomitant systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome have an 18-fold increased risk for cardiovascular events vs. healthy pregnant controls, said a speaker at ACR Convergence 2023.

DENVER — Lifestyle medicine is a central component of obesity treatment, including for adults who receive anti-obesity medications or undergo bariatric surgery, according to three speakers at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

An FDA panel appeared comfortable with theoretical safety concerns during an advisory committee meeting considering the risks vs. benefits of what would be the first gene therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease.

Older women who had 5% or more unintentional weight loss had lower life expectancy compared with women with stable weight, according to data from the Women’s Health Initiative published in The Journals of Gerontology.

Accurate information on fertility likelihood after cancer treatment remains an unmet need among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.