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The FDA approval of ibrutinib for adults with chronic graft-versus-host disease may herald a practice-changing breakthrough in the management of this posttransplant complication.

An estimated 5 million adults in the United States are affected by fibromyalgia, according to the NIH, with women disproportionately comprising approximately 80% to 90% of those diagnosed. Despite being one of the most common chronic pain conditions, fibromyalgia remains one of the most difficult to diagnose, due in part to the loose confederation of nonspecific symptoms associated with this condition, including fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and insomnia.

A self-management intervention helps older adults decrease asthma exacerbations and have better asthma control, according to findings presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting.

LAS VEGAS — In this exclusive video from the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress, Peter D. R. Higgins, MD, PhD, of University of Michigan Internal Medicine, discusses his keynote presentation, which addressed two major topics in clinical IBD: the refractory patient, and raising the bar for outcomes.

Just 35% of older adults taking between one and five medications talked to someone about drug interactions in the past 2 years, according to findings recently released from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.

Since 2011, the FDA has approved six immune checkpoint inhibitors designed to reverse the course of multiple cancers.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease receiving subcutaneous anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy are at a significantly increased risk for disease flare if they miss their medication just 4 days per month, according to new research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Michigan Medicine investigators found that patients who underwent gallbladder removal surgery received a prescription for significantly more opioids than they ended up using.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Legislative efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act seem unlikely to significantly impact health care delivery for providers, but technological innovators like Amazon are poised to cause a massive disruption, according to a presenter at Advances in IBD 2017.

Multidisciplinary and coordinated care delivery models effectively provide opioid use disorder treatment and increase access to medication-assisted treatment in primary care, according to data published in PLOS One.