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The key to determining the level to which inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients might become sick is to understand patients' genetic variation.

The world's first and only non-rechargeable, upgradeable spinal cord stimulation system could change the way that physicians treat chronic pain.

The outrageous $750 a pill price of pyrimethamine (Daraprim/ Turing) could soon be undercut by the appearance of a new compound selling for a dollar a pill.

World AIDS Day is recognized each year on December 1, and while it's a time to applaud the progress made in recent years, it also highlights the challenges that lay before us.

Mandibular advancement devices and continuous airway pressure are equally effective therapies for reducing blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a study finds.

Vitamin D insufficiency among the elderly is highly correlated with accelerated cognitive decline and impaired performance, particularly in domains such as memory loss that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Acne patients with darker skin tones found relief with chemical peels using 25% trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and 30% salicylic acid.

Migraines affect about 12% of the US population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and another condition could indicate that the painful disorder will become chronic.

Increasing daily intake of walnuts has been linked to lower cholesterol levels, overall weight, and quality of diet.

Researchers are close to identifying reliable biological, genetic, and radiological biomarkers of migraine.

Computed tomography may be a better tool for diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the frequent comorbidity pulmonary hypertension than the conventional method of using pulmonary function tests, Chinese researchers report.

A recent review shows that guidelines and testing for patients with distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP) can and should be improved.

Children with autism have a distinctly different functional connectivity, federal researchers report.

Moderate consumption of alcohol can lower the risk of ischemic stroke, Korean researchers report.

With soldiers, sailors, and airmen deploying overseas their physical condition when they come back can be vastly different from when they first left. Finding the best ways to treat these patients has been the focus of recent studies on this topic.

As new medications are approved for patients with allergies and asthma it becomes more important that doctors are able to provide them with the key information about these therapies and what it can mean for their overall care.

Conditions like asthma and seasonal allergies can start when a patient is very young and stay with them throughout the course of their lives. As a result careful monitoring and treatment can greatly help improve the quality of life for those patients.

Many pulmonologists when treating a patient could focus their attention either on asthma or COPD. However, a growingly common patient pool is emerging with symptoms resulting from a combination of the two difficult conditions.

It's been well established that patients with fibromyalgia have a poorer quality of sleep, and now a drug is showing positive results in combatting this common symptom.

For patients with seasonal allergies the prescription medications available may not be enough to help with their symptoms and shots may not be an option they want to consider. Newly developed sublingual immunotherapies have been developed to help these patients manage their daily lives.

Ethnographic study findings indicate that safe spaces represent a promising but so far under-utilized part of community-based HIV prevention infrastructure.

Study shows treatment with golimumab, with or without concomitant methotrexate, reduces symptom severity and improves disease outcomes in patients with psoriatic arthritis. However, adding methotrexate may increase the efficacy of golimumab.

Retrospective analysis of real-world outcomes supports the use of the Amplatzer cardiac plug for left atrial appendage closure in atrial fibrillation patients with a very high risk of stroke or serious bleeds and who cannot tolerate oral anticoagulation.

The risk of developing psoriasis can be attributed to infections, not antibiotic use.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system and has the power to cause additional conditions – including neurocognitive disorders.

When treating liver disease every advantage can help doctors get their patients the care they need before the condition progresses further. A recent study looked at the potential of developing a scoring system to look at risks for this patient population.

Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist Anakinra was found to benefit patients afflicted with severe hidradenitis suppurativa, a common skin disorder characterized by excessive inflammation.

The severity of nail and scalp psoriasis was significantly reduced in patients who received twice-daily treatment with Otezla (apremilast, Celgene).

Younger patients may get a bad rep for misusing prescription medications, but they do not make up the prominent group who get the interventions.