Although guidelines do not recommend use of opioids to manage pain for individuals with knee osteoarthritis, a recent study published early online in Arthritis Care […]
Damage to the heart found in more than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital
Around 50% of patients who have been hospitalised with severe COVID-19 and who show raised levels of a protein called troponin have damage to their […]
Medication keeps more patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis in remission than steroids
A Phase 3 clinical trial showed a new medication that interferes with part of the immune system that causes inflammation was more effective than treatment […]
Difficulties to care for ICU patients caused by COVID-19
Researchers from the University of Seville’s Nursing Department, with the collaboration of professionals from the ICU at Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, have analyzed […]
‘Prediabetes’ diagnosis less useful in older patients
Older adults who are classified as having “prediabetes” due to moderately elevated measures of blood sugar usually don’t go on to develop full-blown diabetes, according […]
Researchers identify why CAR T therapy may fail in some lymphoma patients
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR T, has been a breakthrough in the treatment of blood cancers such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia and diffuse […]
WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early COVID patients
A World Health Organization team on Friday visited a hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as […]
Patients Fend for Themselves to Access Highly Touted Covid Antibody Treatments
By the time he tested positive for covid-19 on Jan. 12, Gary Herritz was feeling pretty sick. He suspects he was infected a week earlier, […]
Exposure therapy also helps patients with childhood trauma process the past
Childhood trauma can have a lifelong effect. Many therapists do not dare to confront these vulnerable patients with their past because they are concerned that […]
Damaged nerves, scarred lungs, exhausted bodies: Some COVID-19 patients face a long haul that can last for months
For Anna Lawrence, a history professor at Fairfield University, it started the third week of March. Her symptoms were textbook—chest pain, difficulty breathing, fatigue, racing […]
Tagrisso Approved in the US for the Adjuvant Treatment of Patients with Early-Stage EGFR-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
21 December 2020 — AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) has been approved in the US for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) […]
Nightmares linked with anxiety and insomnia in heart patients
Heart patients with weekly nightmares are five times more likely to feel depressed or anxious and even more likely to have difficulty sleeping compared to […]
Study uncovers two phases of infection in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia
What does SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, do once it enters a person’s airways, and how does infection in lung cells affect patients’ immune […]
Patients don’t receive recommended follow-up care after weight loss surgery
Patients who have had weight loss surgery may not be receiving follow up care from their GPs as recommended in clinical guidelines—according to new research […]