University Of California San Diego

The immune cells of young and female individuals typically are very potent due to genetic and hormonal factors.

Healio has named Graham Abra, MD, and Anna Burgner, MD, MEHP, associate editors for Nephrology News & Issues and Healio Nephrology. The positions are new additions to the Nephrology News & Issues Editorial Advisory Board.

Precision medicine in cancer treatment has gained momentum due to advances in genomics and the mechanisms of targeted therapies.

There is much to look forward to in the management of psoriatic arthritis, according to a presenter at the 2020 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East.

IV bacteriophage therapy was safe and showed promise against an assortment of infections, according to findings from a case series published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A novel blood-based assay demonstrated the ability to detect five cancer types up to 4 years earlier than current screening methods, according to study results published in Nature Communications.

A new clinical practice guideline addresses limited evidence and provides new recommendations for management of noninvasive ventilation in patients with COPD and chronic hypercapnia.

Selpercatinib appeared to be effective and safe for patients with RET-altered medullary thyroid cancer and RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer, according to results of two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Recently published results show total shoulder arthroplasty is a cost-effective procedure and, according to quality of health economic studies scores, most cost analysis literature on the subject is high quality.

In this video, William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE, speaks with Diabetes in Real Life columnist Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, about how to make diabetes education sessions more worthwhile for people with diabetes.