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Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) has intensified over 6.5 years in late life, reports a study. Increases in PASP also correlate with increases in left ventricular (LV) filling pressure and with the development of dyspnoea.

Small amounts of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) were associated with lower incident cancer risk in non-exercising adults, findings from the UK Biobank Accelerometry Study suggest.

A 10-year territory-wide study has shown a 9.5-fold increase in utilization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) among adult patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) of public hospitals in Hong Kong, especially older patients and patients with more severe disease or comorbidities.

The world is out of the pandemic, but several subvariants of Omicron are still evolving, says Dr Adrian Chan, respiratory physician and intensivist at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore, during his talk at APSR 2023.

Treatment with the investigational, oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor remibrutinib improves symptoms in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) inadequately controlled on antihistamines, the phase III REMIX-1 and -2 studies have shown.