News & Updates

Continuing denosumab beyond 10 years results in further increases in lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) and preserves femoral neck BMD, while switching to zoledronic acid leads to partial loss of previous gains and switching to romosozumab produces additional BMD gain at the lumbar spine, a cohort study in Hong Kong has shown.

Oral antiobesity medications (AOMs) combined with behavioural treatment via telemedicine induces greater weight loss than medications alone, a study has shown.

Adults with obesity are at increased risk of infection-related hospitalizations and mortality, with a 10th of infection-related deaths estimated to be attributable to obesity, according to a study.

The combination of the Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, and the Chinese Healthy Heart (Medi-DASH-CHH) dietary pattern results in improvements in lipid profiles and even encourages healthful eating behaviours among older adults with dyslipidaemia, a recent study has shown.

An alternate-day fasting (ADF) regimen for 3 weeks results in lower blood pressure and myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2) and improves myocardial blood flow and flow reserve (MFR), reports a recent study.

Topical administration of recombinant human granulocyte macrophage–colony stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) helps induce healing of diabetic and nondiabetic wounds, suggests a study.