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Long-term golimumab helps prevent infections in RA

10 Sep 2023

Long-term treatment with golimumab results in relatively low infection rates among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a study has shown.

10 Sep 2023

Hydrocortisone cuts mortality risk in ICU patients with severe pneumonia

08 Sep 2023 by

In patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), those who received hydrocortisone had a lower mortality risk compared with those on placebo, findings from the CAPE COD* trial suggest.

08 Sep 2023

Severe bronchiolitis in infancy tied to reduced lung function in childhood

07 Sep 2023

Infants with severe bronchiolitis are at heightened risk of having decreased lung function at age 6 years, according to a study.

07 Sep 2023

Tuberculosis outcomes worse for smokers

05 Sep 2023 by

Smoking among people with tuberculosis (TB) raises the risk of infection recurrence or relapse, as well as that of death while receiving treatment, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

05 Sep 2023

New COVID-19 variant puts scientists on alert

05 Sep 2023 by

COVID-19 testing has picked up a new coronavirus variant called BA.2.86 – nicknamed Pirola, after an asteroid – in several countries.

05 Sep 2023

Genetics may be responsible for asymptomatic COVID-19

04 Sep 2023 by

In the crowd-sourced COVID-19 Citizen Science Study, a common genetic mutation was tied to asymptomatic COVID-19.

04 Sep 2023

The Geneva patient: Another score on the HIV remission board

01 Sep 2023 by

Another HIV patient may be on the way to a cure following stem cell therapy using wild-type (WT) CCR5 donor cells for a rare and aggressive blood cancer.

01 Sep 2023

Antibiotic use, resistance rates low after a decade of stewardship efforts in SG

31 Aug 2023 by

Ten years since the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASP) in Singapore, the use of several types of antibiotics has dropped, followed by reductions in antimicrobial resistance across several classes, as reported in a study.

31 Aug 2023

Statin cuts CV risk in patients with HIV

31 Aug 2023 by

Treatment with pitavastatin is associated with a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular (CV) events in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as shown in the final analysis of the double-blind, placebo-controlled REPRIEVE trial presented at IAS 2023.

31 Aug 2023

Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir combo averts hospitalization in high-risk COVID patients

30 Aug 2023 by

Treatment with nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir appears to reduce the incidence of hospitalization in a highly vaccinated population of high-risk COVID-19 patients in Malaysia, as shown in a study.

30 Aug 2023