The smartphone app RELAXaHEAD, which consists of progressive muscle relaxation therapy assistance and an electronic headache diary, reduced headache days in patients with migraine, a pilot randomized controlled trial showed.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome and overweight or obesity who underwent fertility treatment had a higher clinical pregnancy rate when assigned metformin vs. similar women not taking the medication, according to a meta-analysis.

Automatic hand dryers in public restrooms can harbor and spread bacteria, according to research presented at ASM Microbe. It was the top story in infectious disease last week.

Treatment with canakinumab resulted in rapid, sustained improvements in active systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, regardless of whether the patient had a fever at initiation, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

A postmortem review of 771 deaths initially attributed to cardiac arrest in San Francisco showed that more than one in six were actually the result of a prescription or nonprescription overdose.

First-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab significantly extended OS compared with platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma, according to results of an interim analysis of the CheckMate 743 trial.

Black adults with screen-detected cancers had a lower calculated 6-year lung cancer risk compared with white adults, despite a significantly higher mean lung cancer risk, according to new research.

Achieving a “work-life balance” can seem an elusive dream.

Among the lessons we are learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps one of the most significant has been the degree to which we have had to adjust to a less intensive, more hands-off approach to taking care of our patients.

The barriers to implementation of care plans have been well-documented, resulting in limited success implementing these plans in oncology practices despite the standard introduced in 2012.