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Motion-based digital device allows effective self-management of urinary incontinence

13 Apr 2022 by

Use of a motion-based digital device to guide pelvic floor muscle training effectively mitigates symptoms of urinary incontinence (UI) as well as reduces UI episodes relative to a home training program that consists of written and narrated instructions, as shown in a study.

13 Apr 2022

Chronic opioid use occurs in head and neck cancer patients on radiation therapy

13 Apr 2022

Patients with head and neck cancer who undergo radiation therapy tend to have persistent opioid use, reveals a study, noting further investigation on early intervention to appropriately wean patients.

13 Apr 2022

Sham acupuncture improves symptoms, QoL in functional dyspepsia

13 Apr 2022 by

Both sham manual acupuncture (MA) and sham electroacupuncture (EA) result in better symptoms and quality of life (QoL) scores among individuals with functional dyspepsia (FD) without affecting objective outcomes, a study has found. This finding underscores the importance of sham controls in acupuncture therapy clinical trials.

13 Apr 2022

High blood pressure, Scarff Bloom-Richardson grade 3 predict CV events in breast cancer

13 Apr 2022

Pre-existing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and grade 3 Scarff Bloom-Richardson are associated with the occurrence of cardiovascular (CV) events among women with breast cancer, reports a study.

13 Apr 2022

HeartMate 3 delivers survival benefit in real-world study

13 Apr 2022 by

A recent real-world study has confirmed that the HeartMate 3 (HM3) device has good postapproval performance, yielding a 6-month survival rate that was comparable to its trial results.

13 Apr 2022

Pre-Ramadan education helps reduce hypoglycaemic events in older diabetic patients

13 Apr 2022

Educating older adult patients with diabetes prior to Ramadan fasting appears to have a favourable effect on the risk of developing symptomatic hypoglycaemia, according to a study.

13 Apr 2022

Eye layers thinner in nondiabetic CKD patients

12 Apr 2022

Patients with nondiabetic chronic kidney disease (NDCKD) have significantly lower centre subfield, average macular, and average ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thicknesses, a recent study has found. All quadrants for the peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer, except for its temporal quadrant, were all likewise thinner in NDCKD patients.

12 Apr 2022

Second-line ustekinumab for Crohn’s disease holds up in real world, as good as vedolizumab

12 Apr 2022 by

Ustekinumab is well tolerated and proves to be effective in the second-line treatment of patients with Crohn’s disease, according to real-world data from the Cross Pennine II study. Furthermore, while clinical remission appears to occur sooner with ustekinumab than with vedolizumab, the two drugs perform comparably at maintaining remission over 12 months.