This Year In Medicine

Reports of eye infection and enucleation related to OTC eye drops concerned the eye care community in 2023 and drove increased vigilance towards ensuring safer ophthalmic products.

The progression toward more targeted, disease-modifying options for the historically difficult rheumatic disease made more headway in 2023.

A headline year for retina disease drug development concurrently brought about research and discussion into the safety outcomes of these new agents.

The seismic shifts in mentality for allergy management and the strides made in immunotherapy have kept parents of children with allergies hopeful, but changes are still needed.

The current treatment paradigm might need to evolve to adjust to rapid diagnostics and narrowing down the antibiotics to aid in optimal outcomes for sicker patients with gram-negative infections.

Throughout 2023, interest in the application of CAR-T and other cell therapies to autoimmune disease skyrocketed, with a multitude of clinical trials being initiated by various companies.

The FDA approved zuranolone for postpartum depression in August, and the drug recently hit the market for patients this month. Experts are celebrating its delivery of care and rapid response rate.

Clinicians and investigators alike navigate waning protection against the complex disease to push precedent-setting research and identify new care options.

Despite a boom of new, cost-efficient options for chronic conditions, prescriber and patient concern over clinical benefit persists.

The past year has seen a multitude of FDA approvals, ranging from IL-23 and JAK inhibitors to biologics and subcutaneous treatment administrations, that have helped redefine what it means to treat IBD.

Califf joins HCPLive to share perspective on AI, gene and cell therapy development, COVID-19, food and substance regulation, maternal and infant health, weight loss intervention, and more.

From breakthroughs in disease intervention and vaccines, to global developments in air quality and COVID-19, Lungcast reflects on the people and stories that shaped this year in pulmonology.

Following years of concerns about the stigmatization and inaccurate etiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease nomenclature, 2023 finally saw revised terminology for liver disease with the implementation of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

In recent conversations with experts in epilepsy, the impact of stigmatization remains high for patients and ongoing efforts by clinicians to address this issue in the clinical setting has been underscored, despite the global lack of awareness about new treatments and other resources.

2023 was a year of both advancements and setbacks for various treatments, and this discussion covers the most significant moves by the FDA this year.

While specialists still debate the diagnostics of impaired cognition, the identification of patients at the earliest stages is beginning to be met through new biomarkers and available assays.

Chief among a flurry of clinical advances in retina disease this year were the FDA approvals of complement inhibitors for GA and a higher-dose aflibercept for diabetic retinopathy. What comes next?

Pinkerton reflects on the breakthrough approval for the non-estrogen, non-hormonal daily oral drug earlier this year.

An overview of the journey and significant events of 2023 that have catapulted semaglutide from a type 2 diabetes agent to the topic of discussions among circles across healthcare and beyond.

The Contemporary Pediatrics Editor-in-Chief reviews the pharmacological breakthroughs and epidemiological setbacks that defined RSV in 2023.

For This Year in Medicine, CGTLive looks back at a landmark first approval, the new treatment opportunities it has provided, and the unmet needs in the field it has brought to light.

We kick off our annual recap series with some reflections from our expert advisory board, on topics ranging from AI and cell therapies, to semaglutide and RSV vaccines.

A group of investigators, researchers and policymakers discuss the issues, innovations and aspirations that may define 2023 advances.

Why has this season brought an unprecedented number of severe RSV infections, and why is vaccine development taking so long?

Allergic contact dermatitis burden many people, but it is important for patients to know why and how they may limit their risk.

This novel concept can benefit patients and clinicians alike by appropriately applying new technologies to identify bacteria more efficiently and decrease the time to optimal therapy.

The past year has provided great steps forward in sleep science, and coupled with the lingering difficulties in care and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects, the field is coming to a head to make sleep health a public health priority.

The FDA's plans to expedite and expand regulatory pathways has resulted in a novel drug development boom since 2017. The commissioner discusses the details of their strategy.

As physician demands continue to climb in the high-demand specialty, patient-reported outcomes have emerged as a viable tool in assessment and care.

With a great deal of marginalized patients navigating burdensome, chronic, heterogenetic disease today, rheumatologists are becoming more invested in what the individual needs and wants from care.