News & Updates

TACE + apatinib: A potential new strategy for intermediate/advanced HCC?

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery more beneficial than median sternotomy in Asians

A minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) is both safe and effective in a carefully selected group of cardiac patients in Singapore, producing better outcomes when compared with conventional median sternotomy (MS), according to a study.

CADENZA updates enhance sutimlimab benefit for rare chronic anaemia

Individuals with cold agglutinin disease (CAD), a rare, chronic, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, had sustained improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and quality of life (QoL) following treatment with the C1s complement inhibitor sutimlimab, findings from part B of the phase III CADENZA trial have shown.

Early-life mebendazole exposure ups risk of adult-onset ulcerative colitis

Early-life exposure to mebendazole, a broad-spectrum anthelminthic agent, tends to increase the risk of adult-onset ulcerative colitis (UC), a study has found.

Frailty-related endogenous endophthalmitis tied to higher in-hospital death, resource use

Frailty syndrome is an independent predictor of endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) development in the setting of bacterial septicemia, suggests a recent study. Furthermore, frailty-induced EE tends to occur in patients with malnutrition and certain bacterial subtypes and may lead to greater in-hospital death and healthcare resource usage.

Metformin exposure in pregnancy poses no risk of SGA, LGA in infants

Exposure to metformin in utero does not appear to put infants at risk of being small for gestational age (SGA) or being large for gestational age (LGA) as compared with nonexposure, a study has found.