Gillian McGovern, Associate Editor

Maintaining a purpose in life has the potential to reduce apathy related to dementia and cognitive decline.

The House Committee members examined pricing tactics by PBMs and how they are harming patients across the country.

The analysis results showed no statistically significant impact on either outcome, but results from prior prospective studies suggest that intravenous immunoglobulin may lengthen hospital stay for patients with severe COVID-19.

In addition to identifying strategies to reduce the adverse effects of sleep and circadian disruption, the study authors identify the impact of obesity on sleep.

Research shows a peak of highly cited COVID-19 studies at the end of 2021 and a significant downward trend by the end of 2022.

The CEO of Yseop discusses how AI can have a positive impact in the development of high quality medical writing due to its efficiency and ability to reduce long, tedious tasks for writers.

Compared with COVID-19 vaccination alone, recent study findings show health care workers who received both a COVID-19 booster and influenza vaccinations did not have lower immune response or more frequent adverse events.

Experts agreed that it was appropriate for patients who use methamphetamine or cocaine to continue opioid use if clinician monitoring was increased and tapering was avoided.

While monitoring influenza virus resistance as it develops, researchers are prioritizing further investigations to decrease the risk of resistant strains.

Having 2 drug classes available for influenza is significant, but it is important to investigate other treatments prior to the pandemic, a new study indicates.

Compared to chemotherapy alone, the combined nivolumab and ipilimumab treatment more than tripled the overall survival rate at 6 years in patients with PD-L1 expression <1%.

California is possibly on the verge of signing a bill that would decriminalize the personal possession of natural psychedelics for those aged 21 years and older.

The CDK12/13 inhibitor will be tested for efficacy and safety in patients with advanced solid tumors, such as breast, ovarian, and Ewing Sarcoma.

Although findings indicate a relationship between vitamin D and mood disorders, further research is needed to clarify efficacy of specific vitamin D levels, as well as supplement dose and form.

Patients who received amivantamab plus chemotherapy or amivantamab without chemotherapy presented better outcomes compared to chemotherapy alone.

Combining T and B cell vaccines could induce a strong enough immune response and protect against HIV-1 infection, although the science is not fully developed.

In addition to overall survival, main efficacy outcomes, such as progression-free survival, objective response rate, and time to response, were compared to chemotherapy alone.

If approved, alectinib would be the only anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor to show reductions in risk of recurrence or death for those with early-stage lung cancer.

Additional research is needed to further evaluate whether adequate emotional support is linked to improvements in health-related quality of life in adults diagnosed with other cancer.

Although the pandemic has negatively influenced the care that patients with cardiovascular conditions receive, the study authors found that there were not significant inequities regarding patients’ race.

Despite the limited data, prior research indicates there are no serious cannabis-related adverse effects in pediatric patients.

The phase 3 clinical program, CORALreef, consists of 3 trials and is likely the first of its kind for an oral PCSK9 inhibitor, according to the study authors.

Patients with cancer and survivors of cancer that had engaged in administrative tasks to effectively estimate costs or pay for care was associated with an 18% increase in cost-related treatment delays or treatment nonadherence.

Nirsevimab (Beyfortus) is the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) preventative drug to be approved by the FDA, and can protect infants through their first RSV season for up to 5 months.

Patients with pancreatic cancer who took benzodiazepine lorazepam had a shorter progression-free survival than those who took benzodiazepine alprazolam.

Most participants who received retatrutide lost a considerable amount of body weight; however, individual results varied given the diversity of obesity.

A COVID-19 booster dose increased both maternal and cord blood binding and neutralizing antibody levels against virus strains, including Omicron BA.1.

The daily oral formulation of ketamine, KET01, has the potential to greatly improve the standard treatment practices for treatment-resistant depression, according to investigators.

Through previous literature, investigators found that intervention with nutritional supplements may help to improve cognitive performance and reduce the severity of memory impairment in adults with Alzheimer disease.

Study investigators suggest that there is a higher prevalence of pain and treatment needs in this small population.