CMS has updated guidance to clarify that all accredited diabetes self-management training providers may furnish and bill for telehealth services during the COVID-19 public health emergency, after months of stakeholder advocacy efforts.

In the IPF-PRO Registry, 50% of patients had a delay of longer than 1 year between symptom onset and diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Almost 90% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom, according to a study of 143 patients published in JAMA.

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has forced ophthalmologists to embrace new technologies and approach patient care differently, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, said at Octane’s virtual Ophthalmology Technology Summit.

Similar outcomes and recurrence rates were found in skeletally immature and mature patients who underwent medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction for recurrent lateral patellar instability, according to presented results.

The United States needs to control COVID-19 before it will be safe to resume in-person schooling and college sports, an expert said Thursday.

Doubling the inhaled corticosteroid dose and adding umeclidinium to inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta agonist in a single-inhaler triple therapy improved outcomes in inadequately controlled asthma, data from the CAPTAIN study show.

For patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, differences in health-related quality of life — including depressive symptoms and physical function — were associated with variations in time to wait-list for kidney transplantation.

Mental health-related emergency department utilization significantly increased in the past decade, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Annual mammography beginning at age 40 or 41 years led to a reduction in breast cancer mortality while adding little to the burden of overdiagnosis, according to results of a randomized study in the U.K. published in The Lancet Oncology.