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Worse cough-specific quality of life appears to be associated with risk for respiratory hospitalization, death and lung transplantation in patients with interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

Anxiety and depression that may follow a cancer diagnosis, especially as a patient approaches the end of life, can be incapacitating and difficult to assuage.

BALTIMORE — Diabetes care and education specialists must provide more resources and services in American Sign Language to optimize education for deaf and hard of hearing people with diabetes, according to two speakers.

Cough-specific quality of life was independently associated with respiratory hospitalization, mortality and lung transplantation among patients with interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

According to published results, female patients with estrogen deficiency and male patients with testosterone deficiency have “significantly” higher odds of rotator cuff repair compared with patients without a sex hormone deficiency.

A mindfulness-based intervention was associated with significant reductions in chronic pain and opioid misuse compared with supportive psychotherapy, according to a recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Amit Maity, MD, PhD, has been appointed chair of the department of radiation oncology for Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at University of Utah.

Testosterone undecanoate injected at 8-week intervals for men with hypogonadism may reduce fluctuations and increase mean testosterone levels compared with a 10-week dose regimen, according to data from a modeling study.

Vasodilator therapy may be underused for Raynaud’s phenomenon and very early systemic sclerosis in U.S. veterans deployed in post-9/11 military operations, according to data published in BMC Rheumatology.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Christopher L. Peters, MD, spoke about patient engagement technologies in joint replacement surgery.