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Use of serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) can help identify acute kidney injury and predict 3-month mortality among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with “normal” creatinine, reports a Singapore study.

Smartphones now have the capacity to accurately render an adult’s level of muscularity through their image capture capabilities in combination with device software applications, a recent study has shown.

Using data from the GUSTO* cohort, the DQI-5 – a Diet Quality Index developed for preschool-aged children – effectively assessed the diet quality of 5-year-olds in Singapore.

For patients with treatment-naïve advanced renal-cell carcinoma who have intermediate or poor prognostic risk, adding cabozantinib to the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab significantly prolongs progression-free survival (PFS) compared with the combination alone but at the expense of increased grade 3 or 4 adverse events (AEs), as shown in a phase III trial.