July 5, 2023

Key Takeaways A new, all-encompassing smoking cessation program helped those struggling with mental illness quit smoking Those who were offered medication and counseling to stop smoking had a 26% success rate after 18 months, compared to 6% in a control group One key ingredient of the new program was a focus on weight management, since...

97.5 percent were projected to achieve virologic suppression by a median of 33 weeks Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) can achieve virologic suppression among people with HIV (PWH), including those with viremia, according to a study published online July 4 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Monica Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of California in San...

Women with atrial fibrillation and normal baseline cognition had higher risk of disease progression from normal to MCI, MCI to dementia Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased odds of and with more rapid progression to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia among women versus men, according to a study published online June 23 in Alzheimer’s...

No impact on receipt of opioid or nonopioid pain treatment seen among patients with chronic noncancer pain. Medical cannabis laws seem not to have important effects on the receipt of opioid or nonopioid pain treatment, according to a study published online July 4 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Emma E. McGinty, Ph.D., from Weill Cornell...

Stereotactic body radiation therapy shows promising results in frail patients and oligometastatic cases, offering potential for curative approach and delaying systemic therapy Renal cancer has been considered a radioresistant tumor until recent advancements in radiation oncology. New techniques, such as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) allow for the safe and precise administration of high-dose radiation...