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Individualized dietary advice among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) results in more favourable blood glucose levels when compared with conventional dietary advice, according to a study.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc not only on the physical but also on the emotional and mental health of people worldwide. But despite the dread and uncertainties, locally, the mental health of financially strained mothers has remined relatively stable owing to an internal resilience that is bolstered by significant resources provided by the Singapore government, as reported in a study.

Both core and noncore homologous recombination mutations (HRMs) respond to platinum chemotherapy in metastatic nonpancreatic gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, which suggests benefit in the two groups, reports a study.

Wild-type gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), though rare, tend to develop more frequently in older adults and commonly originate in the stomach or small intestine, a recent study has found. Though treatment options are limited, surgical resection and systemic therapy remain the principal modalities.

Personalized nutrition advice conducted at grocery stores led to significant improvements in DASH* diet adherence, according to findings from the SuperWIN** trial.

Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) is considered to be as important as for common cancers and should be incorporated into other healthcare programmes such as flu vaccination and cancer screening programmes, based on data from the AFFECT-EU survey of GPs that was presented at EHRA 2022.