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A case report of an 83-year-old man in Spain who was newly diagnosed with HIV highlights the importance of screening older adults, experts said.

The addition of pembrolizumab to first-line chemotherapy led to statistically significant improvement in PFS and OS among patients with PD-L1-positive metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to results of the KEYNOTE-355 trial.

The largest dataset of U.S. patients with Behçet’s disease to date shows that nearly 80% are women, according to researchers who published their findings in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Continuous administration of ocrelizumab in clinical trials and its broader use in real-world settings exhibited a favorable and manageable safety profile for relapsing MS and primary progressive MS, according to a study in Neurology.

In patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, one alcoholic drink doubled the odds of having an atrial fibrillation episode within 4 hours of its consumption, a small, prospective, case-crossover analysis showed.

Each year, millions of Americans take charge of their health by visiting their primary care provider for a periodic “check-up” or health maintenance visit.

Individuals with familial cerebral cavernous malformation had a high incidence rate of seizures, according to study findings published in Neurology.

Lachelle Dawn Weeks, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Emilio Ramos, MD, PhD, of University of California, San Francisco, received the ASH-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award.

There is no doubt that patients with rheumatic and autoimmune diseases are taking full advantage of relaxed laws in the United States surrounding recreational cannabis use.

Nomenclature for low-grade prostate cancer affected initial perception of the disease among online survey participants presented with a hypothetical clinical scenario, according to research published in Cancer.