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Prostate cancer-specific mortality is very low among men with negative transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsies, particularly those with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) <10 ng/ml, reports a study.

Cardiovascular events (CVEs) pose more problems in half of critically ill patients with sepsis, with nearly four in five developing CVEs within the first week of hospitalization, leading to longer intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital length of stay (LOS), a Singapore study has shown.

Rare and deleterious germline mutations affecting inflammatory response and cellular signaling pathways associate strongly with the time to biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical treatment in patients with prostate cancer (PrCa), according to a recent study.

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) consistently reduced the risk of serious hyperkalaemia (serum potassium [K+] ≥6.0 mmol/L) without increasing the risk of hypokalaemia (serum K+ ≤3.5 mmol/L) in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) at high cardiovascular (CV) risk, or in those with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a meta-analysis has shown.

Upadacitinib treatment for atopic dermatitis (AD) may cause acne as a side effect, though this is usually only mild or moderate in severity and can be managed by topical intervention, reports a recent study.

A moderate to high intake of alcohol appears to increase the risk of heart failure (HF) progression in individuals with pre-HF, according to a study presented at Heart Failure 2022.