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Nearly 1 billion people will be burdened with osteoarthritis by 2050, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Abstracts of randomized phase 3 clinical trials in gastrointestinal oncology frequently use subjective minimizing language to characterize serious toxicities, according to results of a systematic review presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Age, sex, BMI, smoking history, nodule size and nodule location — notable factors linked to lung cancer — were also related to this diagnosis in adults with incidentally detected lung nodules, according to study results published in CHEST.

Black individuals are significantly more likely to trust the accuracy of online video content about prostate cancer presented by Black physicians or patients compared with white presenters, results of a randomized study showed.

Brepocitinib, in doses of either 30 mg or 60 mg, is superior to placebo in reducing signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis and is “generally well tolerated” through 52 weeks, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

SAN DIEGO — A novel noninvasive blood glucose monitor may be able to measure glucose levels with an accuracy similar to fingersticks, according to a presenter.

Although maternal mortality ratios increased for U.S. women of all races and ethnicities from 1999 to 2023, American Indian, Alaska Native and Black women, specifically, had increased risks for pregnancy-related death, researchers reported.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, has been appointed senior vice president of the clinical research division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Prognostic models for risk for postoperative cancer recurrence that omit race and ethnicity as predictors may be less accurate for individuals from historically underserved populations, retrospective study results showed.

Seattle Children’s Hospital has paused the phase 1 PLAT-08 trial of SC-DARIC33 after one patient treated with the investigational chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy died.