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Patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) may be at an increased risk for unemployment and depressive symptoms, according to findings published in Ophthalmic Research. Jinghua Chen, MD, PhD, and colleagues conducted a study to...

Adolescent smartphone use is positively associated with mood, according to a study published in PLOS ONE. Megan Moreno, MD, MPH, and colleagues explored the relationship between smartphone use and mood among 253 participants...

Adding albumin to the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index 2.0 (VACS2.0) improved correlations with neuropsychological performance (NP) and frailty among patients with HIV, according to results published in JAIDS. Cynthia Yan and...

Past 30-day electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among adults is associated with earlier ages of asthma onset, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Adriana Pérez, PhD, and colleagues explored the association of...

Clinic-based support combined with provider encouragement significantly improved hearing screening rates, while home-based screening had low adherence despite provider encouragement, according to Ear and Hearing. To determine...

A precise clinical definition of sever – ity in PsA is needed, according to a study in Rheumatology and Therapy. Ennio Lubrano, MD, PhD, from the University of Molise, and col – leagues conducted a retrospective...

Both laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgeries for IBD are safe and effective, with robotic surgeries associated with fewer complications, according to a study published in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis. The study by...

While psoriasis and insulin resistance (IR) are closely related, the impact of IR on psoriasis treatment remains unclear. For a prospective cohort study in British Journal of Dermatology, Dawei Huang, MD, and colleagues...

Artificial intelligence accurately predicted metastatic events in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. “Whilst rates of metastatic cSCC are...

Andrew Siyoon Ham, BA, MPhil, of Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues recently published findings showing that low field MRI could be implemented as part of outpatient care to increase patient access and convenience....

Myelofibrosis is characterized by mutations in the JAK–STAT pathway, specifically in the myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) driver genes JAK2, CALR, and MPL. However, patients often have mutations in other MPN-related genes,...

An improved denoising autoencoder (IDAE) was nearly 100% accurate in identifying HCV, indicating that this neural network model could be useful in diagnosing and managing the disease, according to results published in Scientific...