Keith Loria is a contributing writer to Medical Economics.
New Study Points Out Doubling of Hospitalizations and Healthcare Costs for PH-ILD
August 5th 2024A new study conducted by researchers at the United Therapeutics Corporation in Durham, NC, looked to characterize PH-ILD disease burden by analyzing healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and cost data.
Read More
Blood-Based Immune Signatures Identified to Personalize MS Treatment
July 11th 2024A new study out of Germany, published in Science Translational Medicine in June, looked at peripheral blood mononuclear cells and serum collected from two independent cohorts of patients with MS to identify three endophenotypes of the disease.
Read More
New Study Reveals How Non-Coding FOXF1 Gene Deletions Lead to Fatal Lung Disease in Newborns
June 24th 2024A new study looked to show how frequent non-coding FOXF1 gene deletions that interfere with important DNA regulatory regions can lead to a rare, lethal, genetic lung disease which causes respiratory failure in many newborns and infants.
Read More
Duvelisib Shows Promise in Treating Relapsed/Refractory CLL/SLL: Insights from the DUO Trial
June 17th 2024The recent DUO trial, a global Phase III study, compared the efficacy and safety of duvelisib, an oral PI3K inhibitor, with ofatumumab, an anti-CD20 antibody, in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who had previously undergone at least one therapy.
Read More
The Relationship Between ILD and MDA5 Antibody-Positive DM
May 2nd 2024Rapidly progressing interstitial lung disease in anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibody-positive dermatomyositis (DM) is known for its high death rate because it worsens quickly and causes breathing difficulties within three months of initial lung symptoms. However, there isn't much information about the timing between the diagnosis of ILD and MDA5 antibody-positive DM because most research focuses on either the frequency or the death rates rather than the timing of onset.
Read More