In an interview conducted at the 2024 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Prithviraj Bose, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,…
Systemic mastocytosis, a rare blood disorder, affects the entire body. There are many challenges associated with living with this systemic mastocytosis that are centered around reducing the frequency…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) can help prevent exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an analysis of randomized trials suggests that the benefits…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term treatment with clofazimine or nitroimidazoles may help control Crohn’s disease, according to the authors of a systematic review and meta-analysis. Several bacteria…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only two visits to the pulmonary function lab — one for pre- and post-bronchodilatory spirometry and one for a methacholine challenge test —…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The biomarker procalcitonin can help guide treatment of severe bacterial infections in the intensive care unit (ICU), French investigators report online in The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cladribine and fingolimod, the first oral agents for multiple sclerosis (MS), significantly reduce relapse rates, risks of disability progression, and disease activity, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
Donnica Moore, MD, President, Sapphire Women’s Health Group, discusses Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS, its definition and symptoms. CFS is a chronic, debilitating neuroimmune disease that not only…
Derek Enlander MD, Internist and CFS & Fibromyalgia specialist, discusses Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or ME and its history, symptomatology and diagnosis. Dr. Enlander is the author of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When allergic asthma in children can’t be controlled with medium- to high-dose corticosteroids, add-on omalizumab is effective and well tolerated, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have wide-ranging benefits and a good safety profile, published studies…
