Wearable devices accelerated detection of a common and potentially life-threatening complication among patients with multiple myeloma who underwent chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, according to results of a pilot study.
The technology identified signs of cytokine release syndrome several hours earlier than standard hospital monitoring.
Validation of the findings in larger cohorts could support broader adoption of outpatient CAR T-cell therapy by eliminating the need for some recipients to have extended hospital stays, thereby reducing health care utilization while expanding access.

AMA recently reiterated its call for Congress to pass several reforms that would increase physician payment and improve health care accessibility.
During a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health meeting in May, the AMA advocated for these reforms:
Physician payment has declined 33% since 2001, after adjusting for inflation, “and physicians remain the only Medicare provider without an automatic annual inflationary payment update,” an AMA press release said.
“Many physician practices, particularly in rural areas, are being forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see or close

The HLA-DRB1*01:03 allele was associated with severe outcomes across inflammatory bowel disease subtypes, including perianal complications, advanced therapy use and surgical interventions, according to study results.
“The prognosis and clinical course of IBD is highly variable and largely unpredictable,” study author James C. Lee, PhD, MRCP, professor of basic and translational gastroenterology at University College London’s Institute for Liver & Digestive Health and clinician scientist group leader at The Francis Crick Institute, told Healio.
“Being able to reliably predict future disease

Healio has launched a new special report to help clinicians navigate the diagnosis and treatment of chronic back pain.
Chronic back pain is one of the most common conditions health care professionals see, but it can also be complicated, particularly when considering concerns around long-term pain management and opioid use. But Healio’s new special report — Chronic Back Pain: A Healio Guide for Clinicians — combines the latest research, clinical guidance and expert opinion in an accessible format built for busy clinicians.
Pain management experts Sujan Gogu, DO, and Suresh Srinivasan, MD,

Patients with migraine had greater risks for developing vascular dementia than those with no migraine, according to an abstract presented at the American Headache Society 68th Annual Scientific Meeting.
However, these patients, from a cohort of U.S veterans, were not at greater risk for probable Alzheimer’s disease, Kensei Maeda, BS, a doctoral student at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, and colleagues wrote.
“When we think about dementia, there are, of course, many risk factors that have been found so far, and it might seem like there’s this overwhelming sense

Paternal leave was linked to better mental health among fathers, with paid leave reducing depression and anxiety and longer leave reducing depression, according to a pair of studies published by the American Journal of Public Health.
Expanding access to leave may benefit the family and public health beyond individual improvements for fathers as well, according to the authors of the studies.
“For nearly a decade, our team has been thinking about how to elevate the voices of fathers in the perinatal space, typically what is called maternal and child health,” Craig F. Garfield, MP, MAPP, a

Adults and children with eczema who received care via a team-based connected telehealth model incorporating primary care achieved improvements that were equivalent to those observed through in-person care, according to study data.
The authors found no meaningful difference in EASI, IGA and the Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) scores between patients seen in person vs. those seen online.
“What makes this study important is that it did not simply ask whether telehealth is convenient. It asked whether a structured, online, team-based model can achieve clinical outcomes comparable to

Cardiology societies unveiled the new universal definition of heart failure, with a new focus on early prevention of HF and less rigid classification of HF by left ventricular ejection fraction thresholds.
The Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure document was issued by the joint American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/European Society of Cardiology/World Heart Federation Task Force in collaboration with the Heart Failure Society of America, the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology and the Japanese Heart Failure Society.
“The new framework