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Among adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), group-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) appears to yield modest improvements in emotion regulation, a recent study has found.

Users of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications across age groups do not appear to be at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), although a modest risk increase of cardiac arrest or tachyarrhythmias could not be ruled out, according to the results of a meta-analysis.

Oral ENT-01 safely and significantly improves constipation in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), results of a phase IIb study have shown.

Tongxinluo, added to guideline-directed therapy, improves outcomes in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the large, multicentre CTS-AMI* study. But experts are clamouring for more evidence of efficacy.

In advanced dementia patients with feeding problems, careful hand feeding (CHF) is associated with a 40 percent lower risk of pneumonia and similar 1-year survival rate vs nasogastric tube feeding (NGF), a retrospective cohort study in Hong Kong has shown.

Using collateral flow findings, as seen on computed tomographic (CT) angiography, may widen the population who can undergo late endovascular treatment (EVT) for acute ischaemic stroke (AIS), according to findings of the MR CLEAN-LATE trial.

The use of alprazolam leads to rapid termination of seizures in patients with focal and/or generalized epilepsy treated in an inpatient setting, according to the results of the phase II study ENGAGE-E-001.