News & Updates

A small open-label study supports the safety and motor performance effectiveness of closed-loop adaptive deep-brain stimulation (aDBS) compared with conventional daily deep-brain stimulation (cDBS) sessions in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients.

Smoking increases the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients, but not in people without cancer, a recent study has found.

In the treatment of women with acute ischaemic stroke, mechanical thrombectomy is effective and can be safely performed during pregnancy or the postpartum period, as shown in a study.

Treatment with delgocitinib ointment, a topical Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, for paediatric atopic dermatitis (AD) is effective and well tolerated when applied for up to 56 weeks, according to a phase III trial and a subsequent open-label, long-term study in Japan.

Oteseconazole (VT-1161), a novel investigational fungal CYP51 inhibitor, outdid fluconazole/placebo for managing acute and recurrent* vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), according to data from the phase III ultraVIOLET trial.

Undiagnosed depression, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation are all common among Hong Kong doctors, a recent study has found.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Singapore has changed markedly throughout the last decade, with patients being diagnosed at an increasingly older age and cryptogenic cirrhosis/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) becoming a more important aetiology, according to a recent study.