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Industry Payments to Peer Reviewers Scrutinized at Four Major Medical Journals
Major medical journals relied on peer reviewers who received more than $64 million in non-research payments between 2020 and 2022.
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Risk Assessment Tool Can Help Predict Fractures in Cancer
Researchers collected data on bone mineral density and fractures in 9,877 patients with cancer and 45,875 matched control individuals without...
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Crisugabalin Alleviates Postherpetic Neuralgia Symptoms in Phase 3 Study
“Crisugabalin 40 mg/d or crisugabalin 80 mg/d was well tolerated and significantly improved ADPS compared to placebo.”
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Evidence Growing for Inflammation’s Role in Elevating Risk for Psychiatric Illness
New research further supports a role for inflammation in the development of psychiatric disorders, in findings that may aid in the early...
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A 62-year-old Black female presented with an epidermal inclusion cyst on her left upper back
The patient is awaiting cardiac transplant secondary to the underlying condition.
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Study Identifies Oral Antibiotics Linked to Severe Cutaneous Reactions
The results “underscore the importance of judicious prescribing, with preferential use of antibiotics associated with a lower risk when clinically...
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Case Series: Upadacitinib Effective for Granulomatous Cheilitis
Treatment resulted in a complete response in four patients within a median of 3.8 months and a partial response in one patient.
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Psychiatric, Autoimmune Comorbidities Increased in Patients with Alopecia Areata
Overall, patients with AA showed a greater prevalence of any psychiatric disease and any immune-mediated or autoimmune disease.
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Study Finds Gout Drug Effective for Aphthous Ulcers in Children
“Complex aphthous stomatitis in children is typically treated with topical supportive care, which is often not effective,” one of the study...
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Risk of MACE Comparable Among Biologic Classes for Psoriasis, PsA
Despite some concern about increased risk for MACE with TNFi use, this study suggests no special risk for patients with psoriasis or PsA...
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Study Links Newer Shingles Vaccine to Delayed Dementia Diagnosis
The current study made use of a “natural experiment” in the United States, which switched over from use of the live vaccine to the recombinant...