News & Updates

The age of patients with advanced breast cancer appears to have no influence on the rate of palbociclib dose reductions or discontinuations secondary to neutropaenia, a study has shown.

Treatment with the antisense oligonucleotide bepirovirsen appears to lead to sustained loss of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in up to 10 percent of patients with chronic HBV infection, according to the results of the phase IIb study B-Clear.

An international team led by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has successfully developed world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) model that can detect Alzheimer’s disease (AD) solely through retinal photographs. 

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) shows that 1 hour of Tai Chi training per day, 5 days a week, significantly decreases the frequency of migraine attacks among Hong Kong Chinese women with episodic migraine.

Young breast cancer survivors could safely temporarily stop adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) to attempt pregnancy, according to primary results of the POSITIVE* trial presented at SABCS 2022.

Men who are receiving treatment with 5α-reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs) are at increased risk of dementia in the immediate period after initiating treatment, a study has shown. Of note, both finasteride and dutasteride are associated with depression, but neither of them is linked to suicide.

Paediatric patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and other leukaemias (AML/OLs), especially those with persistent neutropaenia during the first 30 postoperative days, are at increased risk of early catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs), according to a Singapore study.