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Regular practice of yoga postures confers benefits for glucose control, oxidative stress, inflammatory response, and sleep quality in patients with type 2 diabetes, a study has found.
While thyroid dysfunction does worsen survival among patients with chronic heart failure, there are other stronger predictive factors of adverse outcomes in these patients, a new study has shown.
Infection with the human respiratory syncytial virus may lead to a severe respiratory disease which, in the long-run, could impair memory and language-learning, a recent study has found.
Women with central adiposity, regardless of menopausal status, are at risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study.
Not only is high-dose vitamin D supplementation of no help in preventing falls in older adults, it may raise safety concerns at doses ≥1,000 IU/day, according to the STURDY* trial.
Older patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) appear to know less about survivorship issues, according to a study involving a population of 110 ethnically diverse HC survivors.
Bezlotoxumab is both safe and effective for the prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI), results of a meta-analysis have shown. Moreover, bezlotoxumab may be a good therapeutic option for severe rather than mild CDI.
The use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), either alone or in combination with other glucose-lowering medications (GLM), does not seem to exacerbate the risk of sustaining fractures, a new study has found.
In the treatment of patients with acute renal colic, paracetamol and parecoxib are equally effective at dulling pain, reducing the need for rescue analgesia with minimal adverse events, as shown in a study.
Liver fibrosis, as determined by the fibrosis-4 score, is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in healthy people, a recent study has shown.
