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Obeticholic acid is beneficial to primary biliary cholangitis patients with suboptimal response to ursodeoxycholic acid, significantly improving prognostic score with good tolerability, according to the results of an open-label study.
Overuse of routine preoperative medical testing by high-testing physicians results in delayed surgery and increased falls in patients awaiting cataract surgery, reveals a US study.
Fewer women with visual impairment (VI) undergo mammography screening for breast cancer compared to their counterparts without VI, a study has shown.
Older men do not engage less frequently in sexual intercourse, reports a new study. Instead, erectile function, orgasmic function, and duration of partnership seem to be more important factors.
Among patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), use of marijuana has no effect on 30-day hospital readmission for IBS-specific causes but may lower that for all causes, a study has found.
Keeping a poor diet during midlife heightens the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a recent study has found.
The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy led to better progression-free survival (PFS) compared with chemotherapy only in Asian patients with previously untreated locally recurrent inoperable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to a subgroup analysis of the KEYNOTE-355 study presented at ESMO Asia 2020.
Supplementation with hesperidin and flaxseed leads to better glucose and lipid metabolism, while simultaneously easing inflammation and hepatic steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a recent study reports.
Prenatal exposure to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), particularly valproate, was associated with an excess risk of intellectual disability as well as delayed childhood milestones in the offspring, a study has shown.
The gene therapy etranacogene dezaparvovec reduces bleeds in patients with moderate or severe haemophilia B after only one infusion, preliminary data from the HOPE-B study have shown.
