University Of California San Diego

Kathleen Schwarz, MD, is a pediatrician affiliated with Rady Children’s Hospital and the University of California, San Diego.

A partnership between health care systems along the U.S.-Mexico border led to clinically meaningful improvement in survival outcomes among children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, study results showed.

Researchers identified the most accurate estimate of measured glomerular filtration rate is derived from the lower eGFR between creatinine-based eGFR and cystatin C-based eGFR in older adults, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

From 2005 to 2019, the total number of cannabis-related ED visits in California rose from 366 to 12,167 among older adults, according to study results published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

An artificial intelligence tool called KIDMATCH may be able to accurately distinguish between MIS-C, Kawasaki disease and other similar febrile diseases, according to data published in the Lancet Digital Health.

An external classical hematology mentorship pilot program appeared to have a positive influence on trainees and their career paths, according to study results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

A meta-analysis suggested with low confidence that symptomatic long COVID was associated with decreased exercise capacity on cardiopulmonary exercise testing up to 3 months after initial SARS-COV-2 infection.

CHICAGO — Pretreatment evaluation of fat-to-muscle ratio in thyroid eye disease will allow for the best treatment choice, a presenter here said.

In the VMAP study, a noninvasive forward-solution computational ECG mapping system met accuracy goals for arrhythmia and pacing localization, suggesting a role for its use in targeted arrhythmia therapies, researchers reported.

PSA screening appeared associated with lower prostate cancer-specific mortality among both black men and non-Hispanic white men, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.