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Study results show that patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and who are either significantly underweight or overweight/obese have lower sustained remission rates compared with their normal weight counterparts.

Hysingla ER (hydrocodone bitartrate) is a single-entity oral hydrocodone tablet that is administered to treat pain severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment and for which alternative treatment options are inadequate.

Clinicians who see their own clinical outcomes data (sometimes referred to as surgeon-specific mortality data) can use that information to promote and enhance patient safety. However, critics of this approach argue that places the burden solely on the surgeon and under-appreciates the surgical team's role and dismisses hospital staffing, infrastructure, and process as contributors to patient safety.

When surgical patients have tumors that secrete adrenal hormonal, the anesthesiologist needs to thoroughly address preoperative evaluation, perioperative hemodynamic control, electrolytes, and metabolic abnormalities

Almost everyone has episodes of low back pain (LBP) from time to time. Fortunately, most episodes of LBP are considered acute, and resolve within 6 to 12 weeks. When LBP pain persists and becomes chronic, treatment is considerably more complicated and often leads the patient to the surgical suite.

Guidelines from the Endocrine Society report that postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder may benefit from up to 6 months of testosterone replacement therapy but recommend against its use in otherwise healthy women.

The symptoms of depression were reduced in mice models which had high levels of PGC-1a1 in their skeletal muscle.

Monitoring injured workers by testing urine samples can increase prescription consistencies, according to a recent study.

Researchers have found that maintenance treatment with methadone or buprenorphine may help prevent hepatitis C infection among injection drug users, a population with the highest risk of infection of the virus.

Analysis of insurance claims and medical records indicates that people with mitral annular calcification may face a greatly elevated risk of incident atrial fibrillation.

A doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in Africa and was brought to a Nebraska medical center over the weekend for treatment has died, officials said Monday.

Thyroid dysfunction causes many well-recognized changes at the level of the brain, and most are reversible with treatment. Patients who have hypothyroidism often have other neuropsychiatric comorbidities, including affective disorders, depression, cognitive function loss, anxiety, or irritability.

Among diabetics, poor adherence or nonadherence results in poorer glycemic control and increased risk of complications and disability, as well as increased healthcare costs.

New evidence indicates that mitochondria are a crucial element in metabolic homeostasis in white adipocytes. They appear to have significant involvement in adipogenesis, fatty acid synthesis and esterification, branched-chain amino acid catabolism, and lipolysis

Genzyme announced the FDA has approved Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) for the treatment of patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.

The launch of MS Radio aims to spread information, host discussions, and present features for multiple sclerosis patients, caregivers, and clinicians.

Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit is preparing for a new patient. Martin Salia, 44, a surgeon who is completing a residency in Freetown, Sierra Leone, but resides in New Carrollton, MD, is apparently the sixth doctor in Sierra Leone to be infected with the Ebola virus. He was doing the residency at Kissy United Methodist Hospital, a general hospital, not an Ebola center. Meanwhile, new Ebola vaccines are headed for trials.

About half of all adults afflicted with obstructive airway disease have symptoms overlapping with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. According to data presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting, this makes the possibility of misdiagnosis and mistreatment more likely.

A hepatitis C vaccine manufactured by researchers from Oxford University has shown promising potential in an early clinical trial.

Multiple sclerosis is almost conclusively an immune system disease, not a nervous system disease, according to a study published in Nature.

Hoping their discovery will lead to novel treatments, University of Florida (UF) researchers successfully manufactured the human norovirus in a cell culture dish.

Taking beta blockers-a common drug regimen for patients with clinically stable coronary heart disease (SCHD)-likely does not have a benefit or outweigh these drugs' risk for most patients, a University of Florida team report.

Despite previous research suggesting HIV patients have an increased likelihood of suffering from a heart attack, kidney failure, or cancer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health investigators showed the age they encounter these conditions were similar to their uninfected counterparts.

Rheumatic conditions may have an increased association with adverse cardiovascular events, according to research published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

Emotional response to stress can contribute to depressive symptoms, suggests a study published in PNAS.

Vitamin D has a role in the immune system distinct from its regulatory role in calcium homeostasis. Immune cells express the vitamin D receptor and can metabolize circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D into its active form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. This finding has researchers looking for new ways to manipulate vitamin D in the innate and adaptive immune systems.

Low testosterone is a common condition among men with diabetes-diabetic men are approximately twice as likely as others to develop low testosterone and hypogonadism. Because its symptoms mimic other conditions, patients often fail to report concerns and clinicians may fail to diagnose "Low T."

More than a dozen studies over the past few decades have undermined the once common fear that influenza vaccines containing egg proteins could induce reactions such as anaphylaxis in people with egg allergies.

It is well known that patients who get primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after an ST segment elevation myocardial infarction usually survive. But a new study from Denmark looked at a large population of such patients over several years to track just how many deaths there were each year and from what cause.

A meta-analysis of many older studies may explain the recent observation that patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) frequently suffered cognitive impairment without suffering from any signs of stroke.