Diseases

Intramuscular injections of glucocorticoids have efficacy similar to that of intra-articular injections in reducing pain in knee osteoarthritis but without the concerns about joint infection and the challenges of administration, according to results...

In patients who had undergone transcatheter edge-to-edge (TEER) mitral valve repair and required reintervention, less than 5% underwent a surgical mitral valve repair rather than a replacement procedure, a new study shows. ...

Five more women have come forward to say they were sexually harassed at the Louisiana State University medical school in Shreveport, echoing allegations made last month by four women in a formal complaint...

A new drug combination containing rifapentine and moxifloxacin has finally broken the 6-month treatment barrier for drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis, requiring only 4 months to produce a disease-free state at 1 year in most...

In 2016, results from the LEADER trial of liraglutide in patients with type 2 diabetes helped jumpstart awareness of the potential role of this new class of drugs, the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1)...

The serious infection risk associated with rituximab treatment for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is high but can be offset by co-prescribing co-trimoxazole, data from a single-center, retrospective study reaffirm. ...