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Smokers and nonsmokers with chronic asthma share symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), likely due to small airway remodeling. The concurrent disease is often referred to as asthma COPD overlap syndrome.

The past 12 months have brought new insight to major depressive disorder which only brings hope to a better future.

It’s painful, debilitating, and can be accompanied by a slew of other complications; but luckily, this year has been no exception when it comes to better understanding rheumatoid arthritis.

Refining data presented earlier this month at the American Epilepsy Society meeting, NYU Langone researchers published a report on medical marijuana and intractable epilepsy in Lancet Neurology.

Exposure and response prevention appears to be an effective treatment for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who have failed to respond to serotonin reuptake inhibitor augmentation with risperidone or placebo.

The latest US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval goes to a Zurampic (lesinurad), a drug to help treat gout, a type of arthritis classified by severely painful joints.

New research has found that performing confirmatory diagnostic tests before treating nail fungus (onychomycosis) with topical medicine efinaconazole is significantly more cost effective.

Premature newborns that experience prolonged skin-to-skin contact with moms while still in the hospital have a lower risk of death.

Marijuana doesn't help much for glaucoma, but a research study finds many patients want it anyway. Where cannabis is legal, the authors warn,physicians should expect patients will use it to self-medicate.

Between tip-top researchers exploring new treatments and conference coverage dedicated to the cause, psoriasis did not take a backseat this year.

Though physicians are less likely to belong to an organized religion than the average US resident, they are just as likely to be caught up in the cultural pressure to celebrate Christmas. More than 90% of US residents, despite relious beliefs or lack of them, celebrate the holiday.

Psoriasis patients may be at higher risk for developing cancers like nonmelanoma skin cancer, lymphoma, and lung cancer.

Study results suggest that mass treatment with ivermectin followed by active case finding can result in a significant and sustained reduction of the presence of both scabies and bacterial skin infections.

A study has identified an across-the-board increase in the retail prices of dermatologic medications. The findings are consistent with other recent studies of pharmacologics in other specialties, but other trends in health care and circumstances unique to dermatologic conditions make the problem more significant.

For medical conditions like atrial fibrillation there is no shortage of information available on the internet for patients to absorb. Finding credible sources can make a difference in not only the way patients react to the information but what they do with it as part of their treatment.

A public health experiment in which the Egyptian government has obtained large quantities of sofosbuvir for much less than its retail price is impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people.

A group of health professionals and researchers have received grants to study treatments for substance use disorders and hepatitis C among people incarcerated in state prisons.

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) reduces use of analgesics, hypnotics and anxiolytics to extend the positive effects of surgery according to a Norwegian study of pre- and post-operative prescription trends in the Nov. 14 issue of Pain.

While there has been a considerable amount of research about lowering "bad cholesterol," but questions have raised about whether "good cholesterol," really is a good thing and if it should be monitored and treated by doctors.

Patients diagnosed with cardiac conditions or having suffered cardiac events do so for a variety of reasons. A recent study looked at the impact of family history of heart attacks and what can be done to help prevent their patients from suffering similar events.

New analyses of Watchman trial data indicate that left atrial appendage closure might be a more cost-effective long-term treatment for atrial fibrillation than medication and that it may reduce the long-term risk of serious bleeds — but only at the price of more bleeds in the short term.

The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) has drawn upon 3 years of fresh research to update its guidelines for the systematic management of psoriatic arthritis for the first time since 2012.

New research in pigs indicates that exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may have unexpectedly large effects on the body composition of human children and that it alters hormone levels in ways that could lend themselves to new diagnostic tests.

Gout has long been associated with cardiovascular conditions such as heart dysfunction, however, the pathology between the two have remained unclear. A large study analyzed this type of arthritis in connection with atrial fibrillation.

As technology improves and more is learned about treatment for various conditions new guidelines are constantly being developed in the medical field. Once the guidelines are updated it becomes even more important to get that information into the field to help the patients who can benefit from them.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved selexipag (Uptravi/Actelion Pharmaceuticals US) for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in adults.

Whether it is a parent concerned about their child's health or a doctor in a hospital looking to prevent the spreading of germs an alternative for a stethoscope could be a welcome addition to the health care field. With iPhones being a common tool in life bringing the two together could benefit people in many ways.

People suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) also often have lower levels of vitamin D.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego evaluated 60 pairs of adult twin participants using liver MRIs between January 2012 and January 2015 in order to investigate the heritability of hepatic fibrosis.

There are four different variations of bowel cancer with their own set of biological characteristics, affecting the treatment paths for each, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.