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Consuming pecans as an alternative to usual snacks may improve lipids/lipoproteins and diet quality in adults at increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases, suggests a study. However, pecan intake does not appear to have any effect on vascular health.

Among children with cystic fibrosis, those who contract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection appear to have worse respiratory outcomes, including increased antibiotic exposure and breathing obstruction, as reported in a retrospective study.

Chronic psychosocial stress (PS) appears to contribute to the delayed onset of pubertal signs in children, suggests a recent study.

Significant treatment gaps persist in lipid management among individuals at very high cardiovascular risk, with up to 80 percent of patients not achieving their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goals, reports a Singapore study.

Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) in individuals with arterial hypertension is independently associated with a diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA), reports a study.

The urine GAGome score appears to be a promising biomarker for detecting clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) recurrence, findings from the AURORAX-0087A trial suggest.

Using metformin in addition to first-line platinum/taxane-based chemotherapy does not appear to produce survival gains in patients with newly diagnosed advanced stage ovarian cancer, according to a study.

Pacemaker implantation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was associated with a significantly worse prognosis in terms of all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality, according to the SwissTAVI trial presented at EHRA 2025.