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More than 40% of older adults in the United States said they utilized online ratings or reviews when choosing their doctor, according to survey data published in Annals of Internal Medicine. The online ratings and reviews were viewed as very important nearly as much as verbal recommendations from respondents family and friends, and more often than a where a physician trained or went to medical school, researchers reported. We did this research because online ratings and reviews are increasingl...

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While many of the forthcoming American College of Rheumatology guidelines for rheumatoid arthritis capture the reality of clinical practice, some recommendations are puzzling, according to a speaker at the ACR State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium. It is important to note that many of the recommendations are conditional because they are based on little or no data, according to presenter James R. ODell, MD, Stokes Shackleford Professor and chief of the division of rheumatology at the University o...

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Adults aged over 65 years who took thiazides for hypertension had an increased risk for keratinocyte carcinoma and melanoma, according to results of a population-based cohort study. It is important to think about the increased risk of skin cancer associated with thiazide diuretics in the context of the whole patient, study co-author Aaron M. Drucker, MD, ScM, a dermatologist at Womens College Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, told Healio Primary Care. While we c...

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The FDA has approved a self-injectable formulation of Xolair for appropriate patients with moderate to severe persistent allergic asthma, nasal polyps or chronic idiopathic urticaria, according to the manufacturers. Expanding treatment options for personalized care and self-management is always welcome news for the patient community, Kenneth Mendez, CEO and president of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, said in a press release. The possibility of administering FDA-approved treatmen...

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Although it took a bit longer than expected, the first FDA approval of a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for advanced multiple myeloma will have a major impact on clinical practice, according to experts. In the big picture, I think that this technology is a game changer, Brian G.M. Durie, MD, chairman of the board of the International Myeloma Foundation, scientific director of the International Myeloma Working Group and specialist in multiple myeloma at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, to...

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There are many IOL options for aphakia without capsular support, one being the angle-supported open-loop flexible anterior chamber IOL. Whether it should a hold a place in the pediatric surgeons armamentarium is debatable. The literature supports the safe and effective use of these lenses, at least in adults; the pediatric experience in the literature is small -- small cases with short follow-up, M. Edward Wilson, MD, said at the virtual American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Str...

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Results of a three-armed trial demonstrated that dolutegravir-based ART regimens are favorable to efavirenz-based regimens among pregnant women with HIV, according to data presented recently at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. WHO recommends dolutegravir as a preferred first- and second-line treatment for HIV in all populations, including pregnant women. Lameck Chinula, MD, an assistant professor of global womens health at the University of North Carolina School of ...

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