News & Updates

Measuring blood pressure (BP) three or four times while asleep may allow for a reasonably accurate detection of nocturnal hypertension status as compared with a full night of ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), a recent study has found.

In people with type 2 diabetes, liver fibrosis, measured according to indices, may be associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), a recent study has found.

Children with asthma who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus are at an increased risk of hospitalization, especially those whose asthma is poorly controlled, compared with children without asthma, according to data from the EAVE II* study.

Cryotherapy is a safe and effective treatment approach for extra-abdominal desmoid tumours, achieving clinical efficacies comparable to traditional therapies, according to a recent Singapore study.

Bifidobacterium adolescentis, a unique gut bacterium, is correlated with the efficacy of the inactivated and mRNA coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines available in Hong Kong, a collaborative study between the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has shown.

Treating myeloproliferative neoplasm patients with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) may induce higher risks of bleeding events, with no particular spikes in thrombosis rates, a recent study has found.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common among Asians, particularly in the main ethnic groups in Singapore, with incidence rates ranging between 6 percent and 10 percent, according to a recent study. Such ethnicity-dependent disparities could be partially explained by clinical and socioeconomic factors that may be valuable as targets for intervention.