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Abaloparatide-sc can benefit postmenopausal women with osteoporosis by helping increase greater bone mineral density, since building bone strength is important for these women's health.

Systemic atherosclerosis causes peripheral artery disease, and these patients are at risk of cardiovascular death and stroke.

AHA President Steven Houser opens the AHA Scientific Sessions 2016 with a moving talk on his father's premature death from heart disease.

A new study out of Ireland examined the prevalence of extra-articular manifestations in axial spondyloarthritis, and found that women were at significantly higher risk for inflammatory bowel disease and uveitis than men.

A report out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows a reduction in hip disease progression in ankylosing spondylitis patients who receive anti-tumor necrotics factor treatment.

Patients taken statins who survived heart attacks lived longer than those who did not take the drugs, a Taiwan research team found.

Certain types of inflammation go hand-in-hand. Columbia University researchers hypothesized that treatment that lowered arthritis disease activity would also decrease the risk of heart failure.

Philip Mease shared that he and his team are in the midst of preparing the content of the studies for publication to ensure continued education of psoriatic arthritis treatment.

At the ACR/ARHP annual meeting in Washington, DC, Philip Mease, MD, Swedish Medical Center, University of Washington, discussed the highlights from two psoriatic arthritis studies, OPAL Broaden and OPAL Beyond.

Using marijuana may double the risk of stress cardiomyopathy, researchers found.

The mysterious sudden deaths of apparently healthy people, some young and engaged in sports, could be explained by mutations uncovered by a Canada research team.

Being able to perform CPR matters a lot when it comes to saving children who experience a sudden out-of-hospital arrest.

The American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2016 gets underway in New Orleans, LA, this weekend. Here are some studies to watch for.

Are healthcare workers who wear glasses or contacts more likely to get colds and flu? Researchers at Johns Hopkins report on a study with intriguing findings.

Patients with HIV are likely to have other sexually transmitted infections, but routine testing may be too expensive an urban Alabama clinic estimated.

Not only is Brazilian AIDS and infectious disease specialist Mauro Schecter, MD, PhD, an expert in Zika, he was also a patient. In the opening session of IDWeek 2016, he described what that was like.

Noninvasive technology can accurately measure liver stiffness and track progress in liver disease cure.

The threat of Zika virus and state of research surrounding the virus drew standing room crowds at IDWeek 2016.

Michelle Doll, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, discussed her recent work in assessing the association between regular dental check ups and decreased risk of getting pneumonia.

Concerns that high-risk men on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV would stop using condoms and start getting other sexually transmitted infections have been somewhat validated in a Boston clinic.

Transmitted HIV drug resistance is a growing problem. Researchers found 20% of treat-naive HIV patients in a rural Southern US community had such transmitted drug resistant strains of the virus.

Mark Mulligan, MD explained that Zika needs better diagnostic tests, which he knows can take some time, but is hopeful something will come along in a reasonable time frame.

A new drug combo had good results in treatment-naïve women with HIV, researchers reported today at IDWeek 2016 in New Orleans, LA.

Recommendations that children with asthma not get live attenuated flu vaccine may not be necessary, researchers found.

At IDWeek 2016, Mark Mulligan, MD, Hope Clinic at Emory Vaccine Center discussed his team's recent projects studying the natural history of Zika infection and their Zika vaccine trial.

Deaths from measles can come through a complication known as SSPE, and it is more common than thought. It can occur years after measles infection, even in adults.

An experimental biologic for treating drug-resistant HIV showed dramatic results in phase 3 trials, researchers report. It's called ibalizumab.

Researchers calculate that more than 300,000 people in the US are now affected by the parasitic illness Chagas Disease, once limited to Latin and South America.

Antibiotics known to disrupt the microbiome appear to send more patients back to the hospital, CDC researchers found.

At IDWeek 2016, Mark Murphy, DO, Advocate Children's discussed his team's quality improvement project to improve the HPV vaccine completion rates in pediatric patients, which is an "ongoing national issue".