Vanderbilt University

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will collaborate with three major cancer centers to provide minority and other underserved populations with greater access to blood cancer clinical trials.

Use of an automated, text message-based mobile health intervention helped to increase physical activity levels in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension, researchers reported in Chest.

A point-of-care model, consisting of 13 variables and available via a web-based calculator, was able to identify predictors for missing HIV health care visits, according to a recent study.

Data suggest that the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna provide protection from infection for at least 6 months.

Adults with asthma and type 2 diabetes had lower counts of asthma exacerbations and symptoms after initiating treatment with a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist compared with other drugs for diabetes treatment intensification.

Using a traditional definition of health care-associated influenza missed more than 80% of possible cases among patients admitted to acute-care hospitals during seven influenza seasons, researchers reported at the SHEA Spring Conference.

Although much has been achieved within the past year in addressing inequities across the U.S. health care system, it is only the tip of the iceberg, according to panelists at the COVID-19 & Cancer Consortium Scientific Retreat.

The lack of patients with cancer in COVID-19 vaccine trials has led to a major gap in data to understand how these vaccines work for this population, according to a keynote address at the COVID-19 & Cancer Consortium Scientific Retreat.

Chronic immune-related adverse events appeared more common than previously thought among patients with stage III to stage IV melanoma who received adjuvant anti-PD-1 therapy, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

March is National Endometriosis Awareness Month. The observance was founded by the Endometriosis Association in 1993 and has since become recognized worldwide, according to the association.