Amy Jacob

Researchers recommend all organ transplant patients should undergo total-body screenings for skin cancer.

Pieter Muntendam, MD, scPharmaceuticals, and colleagues hoped their productive can help reduce patients' length of stay in the hospital.

At the Heart Failure Society of America's 20th Annual Scientific Meeting, Pieter Muntendam, MD, scPharmaceuticals, discussed his work in developing a hospital strength treatment option for patients with fluid overload using the well known drug furosemide, now for subcutaneous administration.

According to Joseph Rogers, MD, Duke University, the HFSA has grown positively over the years to become a platform showcasing high level science, as evidenced through the late breakers that were presented.

Joseph Rogers, MD, Duke University discusses palliative care and how it fits into the overall treatment regimen of very sick patient populations.

While there's no yet proven treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, the team is really aiming to understand the pathophysiology to design better targeted treatments.

HIV/AODS research has tended to silo people into particular categories or particular communities like injecting drug users, men who have sex with men, etc.

"Heart failure is a disease that happens because of other diseases, so it's kind of the end result of diabetes, heart attacks, and cancer therapies, so it's hard to be a heart failure doctor and not spend a lot of time thinking about all the other medical specialties," concluded Allen.

With many new drug discoveries and medical devices int he field of advanced heart failure, Larry Allen, MD, MHS and his team are working to create patient decision support tools to help them navigate any challenges.

Bonus video: As the 20th Annual US Conference on AIDS wound down, one presenter stood out—not just for advocacy work. She also sings. Here’s the conclusion of our interview with Adriana Garriga-Lopez, PhD, singing Manuel de Falla's "Nana".

Experts need to think about public health in a smarter way; it shouldn't just be about emergency management.

When talking about HIV, you're not just talking about one thing; you're talking about many different epidemics.

Exploring the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Puerto Rico, Adriana Garriga-Lopez, PhD, questioned how colonialism manifests on an every day level.

The fight against HIV is not just a fight against a virus.

"It's great that we have more tools for HIV prevention, but we should also work on the conditions that put people at risk."

Despite the development in HIV/ADIS research, "We are not close to where we should be or where we'd like to be," shared Carlos Rodriguez Diaz, PhD, University of Puerto Rico.

Ending this epidemic isn't just about stopping HIV, it's about really giving value and respect to sexual health and sexual well being.

HIV isn't just an issue of health or public health; rather, HIV is a magnifying glass to a myriad of social justice and human rights challenges that will not go away even if we end HIV.

The launch of the ACT NOW Coalition has set the goal of ending the AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020, and hopes collaboration will urge the same across the country.

"The is no one living with HIV in this country who shouldn't have access to a treatment combination that works for them."

According to Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works, "It really doesn't matter what part of the world you're in. If you're having to struggle with issues around sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, homelessness, addiction, mental illness, they are all drivers of very bad health outcomes for people - whether you're talking about HIV, hepatitis C, or tuberculosis."

Even a severe medical condition won’t let players avoid the NFL’s recent seemingly admirable stance on substance abuse violations.

Ravi Prasad, Phd, Stanford University, shared his work with the Stanford Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Pain Program to help improve patient quality of life.

Pain management is everyone's job. It's a human problem.

"Opiates are not the first line for every condition; they should not be reflexively prescribed," said Alexis LaPietra, DO, St. Joseph's Medical Center.

There is a lot of regulatory scrutiny, media attention, and confusion about managing pain, so patient education should be at the forefront of physicians' minds.

Pain is the single most common reason people seek medical attention - more than heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension.

Dr. Fricton of the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research explored how to make transformative care a practical part in treating patients with chronic pain.

At The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2016 (ESC), Ibrahim Danad, MD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, explained the results from his team's PACIFIC trial, which assessed two non-invasive coronary artery imaging tools: positon emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

At the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2016 (ESC) in Rome, Italy, Anselm Gitt, MD discussed the DYSIS program, which was designed to get an idea to see how patients were treated for secondary prevention, focusing on dyslipidemia patients.