News & Updates

Low-field 0.23T MRI technology has been introduced recently as part of the launch of Hong Kong’s first one-stop acute stroke management model, the Emergency Stroke Unit (ESU), at Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH).

In patients with calciphylaxis, diagnostic delay and complications have dropped over time, according to a study. In addition, the number of deaths has decreased in recent years. These findings stress the importance of awareness to speed up diagnosis.

Adults with binge-eating disorder and obesity who responded to acute lisdexamfetamine (LDX) treatment demonstrate sustained benefits during the subsequent 12-week maintenance phase, with better eating-disorder psychopathology outcomes and greater weight-loss relative to placebo, as shown in a study.

The HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD) can offer a lifeline to patients with severe heart failure, including those with morbid obesity and advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), medical conditions that carry increased perioperative risks, as suggested in a retrospective cohort study.

Children who received quality care from mothers during their formative years show better mental health functioning despite later clinical diagnosis, reports a Singapore study. This suggests that early maternal care promotes an overall long-term protective effect.

The incidence of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is two times higher among Black than White individuals, reports a study.

In patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy, adjunctive lacosamide treatment in the long term may safely reduce the frequency of generalized onset tonic–clonic seizures (GTCS), as shown in the open-label extension EP0012 trial.

Treatment with the investigational agent acoramidis significantly reduced all-cause mortality (ACM) and recurrent cardiovascular-related hospitalizations (CVH) at 30 months for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), according to a post hoc analysis of the phase III ATTRibute-CM trial presented at HFSA 2024.