by European Respiratory Society edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Children with asthma who use at-home monitoring are around half as likely to visit the emergency department or be hospitalized, compared to those who only receive care from their medical team, according to research presented at the European […]
by Dan Baumgardt, The Conversation edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors’ notes Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Diabetes mellitus—known to many as type 1 and type 2 diabetes—gets all the attention with its rising global prevalence and connection to lifestyle and autoimmunity. Meanwhile, its lesser-known relative—diabetes insipidus—more quietly affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, but is an altogether different
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by American Society for Radiation Oncology edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: AI-generated image A single course of low-dose radiation therapy may provide a safe and effective alternative treatment option for people with painful knee osteoarthritis according to a new randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. The study showed patients with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis reported
by University of California, Los Angeles edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Patients with recurring prostate cancer who were treated with a new PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy before stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) went more than twice as long without their disease worsening compared with those who received SBRT alone, according
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by European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hypnosis can significantly improve patients’ tolerance of masks to help them breathe when they are suffering from acute respiratory failure, according to a pilot study presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. People who come to hospital with breathing
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by Cochrane edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Transmission electron micrograph of RSV. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer / Public Domain A new Cochrane review demonstrates that vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are both safe and effective in protecting vulnerable groups that are most at risk of serious illness, including older adults
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by Karolinska Institutet edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal The BMJ, shows how a simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease. The method may already start to be applied in primary care to enable the earlier detection of
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by University of Oregon edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Melanie Spero and her lab at the University of Oregon have found that by adding small doses of a simple molecule called chlorate to standard antibiotics, the combination proved 10,000 times more effective at killing bacterial cells in the lab than single-drug antibiotics. They
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by University of Cambridge edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors’ notes Credit: University of Cambridge A combination of metformin, a common diabetes drug, and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin—the protective coating around nerves, which gets damaged in multiple sclerosis (MS) causing symptoms like fatigue, pain, spasms and problems with walking. This is according
by Northwestern University edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 99% of people who went on to suffer a heart attack, stroke or heart failure already had at least one risk factor above optimal level beforehand, reports a large-scale study led by Northwestern Medicine and Yonsei University in South
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