University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

SAN ANTONIO — The addition of anthracyclines to adjuvant taxane-based chemotherapy improved survival for certain high-risk patients with breast cancer, according to data presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Treatment of obesity-related HF with preserved ejection fraction with semaglutide 2.4 mg improved body weight, physical function and HF symptoms regardless of the extent of patient frailty, a speaker reported.

Women with primary hyperparathyroidism have similar pregnancy rates, maternal outcomes and neonatal outcomes as those without primary hyperparathyroidism, according to study data.

PHILADELPHIA — Early, cost-effective screening may predict and prevent incident heart failure events for patients with diabetes and no prior heart disease, a speaker reported.

An updated guideline on the prevention and management of atrial fibrillation includes a new staging system to emphasize disease progression, along with updated recommendations for catheter ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion.

Over 10% of fecal immunochemical tests used for routine colorectal cancer screening contained unsatisfactory samples that could not be processed, according to study findings published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

According to published results, wheelchair users had higher rates of complications and readmissions at 1 year after total shoulder arthroplasty compared with non-wheelchair users.

I heard my first lecture about personalized or precision medicine in the early 1980s.

Providing iron supplements during prenatal visits improved hematocrit levels and anemia rates and reduced transfusions for acute blood loss anemia among women with Medicaid insurance, researchers reported.

Among individuals aged 18 years or younger, neighborhood-level deprivation did not raise the odds for severe obstructive sleep apnea, according to results published in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology.