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Shorter time from rectal cancer diagnosis to NCRT tied to pathologic complete response
08 Jan 2022
The time elapsed between diagnosis of rectal cancer and initiation of neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCRT) shows a significant association with pathologic complete response (pCR), and shortening this time may improve the likelihood of achieving pCR, suggests a recent study.
08 Jan 2022

Dry eye disease symptoms, incidence worsen during COVID-19 lockdown
08 Jan 2022
There was an increase in the incidence of dry-eye disease (DED) during the lockdown for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a recent study has found. Such a spike may be related to the increase in use of visual display terminals (VDTs).
08 Jan 2022

Does patient education improve influenza vaccination uptake?
07 Jan 2022
byStephen Padilla
Both individualized counselling (IC) and pamphlets have improved the uptake of influenza vaccination, but IC does not appear to be superior to pamphlets alone at improving vaccine acceptance, according to a Singapore study.
07 Jan 2022






