World Cancer Day is a global healthcare event for the awareness of cancer, which has been commemorated on February 4th of every year for the past 23 years (since 2000) with the aim of spreading awareness and educating people about its detection, treatment, and prevention. On this day, people from various international and local organisations […]
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Gut Microbiome Can Alter Cancer Therapy Response – Medicoz Community Researchers found that sequencing technology has shown that the gut microbiome plays a role in the treatment of cancer, apart from other benefits. The findings published in JAMA Oncology established the current understanding of the connection between the gut microbiome and therapeutic response to immunotherapy […]
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Lupus May Lead to Worse Stroke Outcomes for Women, but Not Men Women with systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) experience worse outcomes after an acute stroke than does the general population, but men with SLE do not, according to an analysis of the U.S. National Inpatient Sample presented at the annual meeting of the British Society […]
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Researchers in Scotland have developed a risk calculator using a large electronic health records database that has shown a high reliability in predicting the risk of death for patients hospitalized for chronic occlusive pulmonary disease (COPD), providing another potential tool for improving post-discharge survival in these patients. In a study published online in the journal Pharmacological Research, Pierpalo […]
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Key Takeaways : Use of Metformin likely reduces the risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the general population. Expression of a mitochondrial complex I–related gene, NDUFA2, reduced AD risk and was associated with less cognitive decline in the brain. Mitochondrial function and the NDUFA2 gene are likely mechanisms of action in dementia protection. Why This Matters? Dementia […]
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In an unselected population of patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), the pentaspline pulsed field ablation (PFA) catheter achieved pulmonary vein isolation with 99.9% success and good procedure times. Presenting the results of the Multi-national Survey on Methods, Efficacy and Safety on the Post-approval Clinical Use of Pulsed Field Ablation (MANIFEST-PF), Vivek Reddy, MD, Mount […]
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A newly developed influenza vaccine against a potentially pandemic variant of the influenza virus, the H5N1 subunit virus, has been shown to be highly immunogenic in younger and older adults. In a randomized, phase 3, multicenter study, the experimental vaccine elicited high hemagglutination inhibition titers in patients aged 18 and 64 as well as those […]
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Stem cell therapy improves motor impairment and is safe and well tolerated in patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), results from a phase 2 trial indicate. “We proved for the first time that we can affect outcomes in moderately to severely disabled patients with TBI using stem cells,” study investigator Peter McAllister, MD, co-founder and […]
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Even by cautious calculations, the worldwide incidence of cutaneous melanoma is high and predicted to rise sharply over the next 2 decades, cancer epidemiologists warn. An estimated 325,000 people worldwide received a new diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma in 2020, and if present trends continue, the incidence of new cases is predicted to increase by about 50% […]
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