Sparsentan may be a new treatment option for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a rare kidney disorder that affects children and adults, and can lead to kidney failure.
Childhood adversity linked to COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations in adulthood
People who endured childhood adversity, like abuse or neglect, were more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 in adulthood, a new University of Pittsburgh study found. Specifically, higher…
New prediction model estimates risk of opioid relapse early in treatment
A newly developed prediction model may be able to calculate the risk of opioid relapse among individuals in the early stages of medication treatment-;as early as three weeks into therapy.
Pharmacist prescribing for hypertension could save billions and millions of lives, study finds
If pharmacists had a larger role in prescribing medications to control blood pressure, they could prevent more than 15 million heart attacks, nearly 8 million strokes and more than 4…
Racial and socioeconomic integration linked to lower health care expenditure disparities
Differences in health care expenditures between Black and white adults vary substantially with the local level of racial and economic integration, and tend to be low or nonexistent in highly…
Zoonotic spillover epidemics increasing at exponential rate, study finds
Four types of animal-to-human (zoonotic) Infections have been increasing at an "exponential rate," amid a general pattern of increasingly larger and more frequent 'spillover' epidemics, finds an analysis of 60…
AI predicts glaucoma progression in high-risk patients with high accuracy
AI (artificial intelligence) that is trained to recognize red flags in retinal images and clinical information can predict if and when people at high risk of glaucoma, usually referred to…
Teleworking during the pandemic linked to higher parenting stress, especially for fathers
Forty percent of parents who worked remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic reported higher parenting stress compared with only 27 percent of parents who worked onsite, reports a new survey from…
Analysis finds implicit bias of healthcare professionals towards transgender people
By analyzing data from the Harvard Implicit Association Test-;a widely accepted measure of a person's attitudes toward people based on characteristics like race, gender, and sexuality-;researchers find that healthcare professionals,…
High-impact clinical trial results to be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023
The results of numerous high-impact clinical trials that could affect kidney-related medical care will be presented in-person at ASN Kidney Week 2023 November 1–November 5.