Washington University School Of Medicine In St Louis

PHILADELPHIA — The understanding of long COVID, its symptoms and even its definition, continues to rapidly change amid a flood of data, according to Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, and Alfred Kim, MD, PhD, at ACR Convergence 2022.

Medicaid expansion appeared associated with reductions in metastatic cancer incidence and overall cancer mortality, according to study results scheduled for presentation at ASCO Quality Care Symposium.

Jessi Gold, MD MS, does not consider “OK” or “fine” to be emotions.

Medicaid-insured women diagnosed with primary hormone receptor-positive breast cancer had lower odds of short- and long-term adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy if they had a longer time to initiation of the therapy.

Several hematologists will be honored during this year’s ASH Annual Meeting, scheduled for Dec. 10-13 in New Orleans.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For patients with femoroacetabular impingement, surgical treatment of labral pathology with femoral osteoplasty yielded better long-term outcomes and survivorship compared with arthroscopy alone.

Researchers have developed a genetically modified form of the immune-stimulating protein interleukin-7 that significantly enhanced chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy activity in preclinical testing.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Eric W. Carson, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, shared his experiences as a Black orthopedic surgeon and the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion within orthopedics.

The inclusion of a smoking cessation tool into electronic health records increased self-reported patient quit rates by more than 5 percentage points, according to study results.

Increased state spending on social services such as Medicaid correlated with improved 5-year overall survival among Black adults with cancer, according to study results scheduled for presentation at ASCO Annual Meeting.