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Patients with autoimmune rheumatic conditions demonstrated a 1.5-fold increased risk for long COVID after infection compared with controls, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology....

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VIENNA — Multimodal imaging and AI are revolutionizing clinical assessments, streamlining workflow, enhancing diagnostics, and enabling longitudinal predictions of disease progression and treatment outcomes. “There are several imaging biomarkers that nowadays are quite important to predict how the disease will progress in a specific patient,” Enrico Borrelli, MD, PhD, FEBO, told Healio at the Euretina congress. “We can also predict treatment response, getting the full picture of how that patient is going to evolve over time.” The Zeiss retinal portfolio offers a range of multimodal solutions

VIENNA — Multimodal imaging and AI are revolutionizing clinical assessments, streamlining workflow, enhancing diagnostics, and enabling longitudinal predictions of disease progression and treatment outcomes. “There are several imaging biomarkers that nowadays are quite important to predict how the disease will progress in a specific patient,” Enrico Borrelli, MD, PhD, FEBO, told Healio at the Euretina congress. “We can also predict treatment response, getting the full picture of how that patient is going to evolve over time.” The Zeiss retinal portfolio offers a range of multimodal solutions

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SAN DIEGO — Patients with severe symptoms of long COVID experienced relief with 12 weeks of Bezisterim therapy, according to a poster presented at the 151st Annual Meeting of the American Neurol...

Jennifer A. Shuford, MD, MPH, resigned as the CDC’s deputy director and chief medical officer after spending just 4 months at the agency. Shuford said she was leaving to spend more time with her family. “I am so thankful to President Trump and Secretary Kennedy for giving me the opportunity to help lead CDC,” she said in a statement provided to Healio. “It has been an amazing experience, and I will be forever grateful for it.” T he Washington Post first reported Shuford’s departure. Two anonymous sources told the Post that disagreements over the Trump administration’s vaccine policies factored

Click here to read the Healio Exclusive, “Practice good ergonomics early in career to avoid work-related injuries.” Practicing ophthalmology is mentally and physically stressful. To sustain a long and rewarding career, management of both is critically important. The cover story in this issue of Healio | OSN focuses on physical stress. Every ophthalmologist is vulnerable to repetitive strain injury (RSI), which is defined as an injury to the musculoskeletal and/or nervous system caused by repetitive tasks, forceful exertions, vibrations, mechanical compression, or sustained or awkward positions.

LAS VEGAS — Physicians can mitigate their legal risk by documenting their clinical reasoning and staying informed about emerging medical-legal issues, a speaker at OMED said. Medical legal “is always a great topic for people to learn more” about, John R. Casey, DO, MA, FACOEP-D, director of medical education at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, told Healio. “It’s not meant to be scary. Some people think it’s a bit dry, but I think it’s interesting if you look at it with the same lens that you look at quality review,” Casey said. “If you think about it from the fact that we all do medicine, we’re

Click here to read the Healio Exclusive, “Practice good ergonomics early in career to avoid work-related injuries.” Practicing ophthalmology is mentally and physically stressful. To sustain a long and rewarding career, management of both is critically important. The cover story in this issue of Healio | OSN focuses on physical stress. Every ophthalmologist is vulnerable to repetitive strain injury (RSI), which is defined as an injury to the musculoskeletal and/or nervous system caused by repetitive tasks, forceful exertions, vibrations, mechanical compression, or sustained or awkward positions.