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Behavioural therapy may improve physical activity, sleep quality in asthma patients

17 Jan 2023

Individuals with asthma may benefit from a behavioural intervention to increase their physical activity (PA), which may lead to improvements in quality of life and sleep, as well as a reduction in asthma and anxiety symptoms, suggest the results of a recent study.

17 Jan 2023

CVD, mood disorders up risk of dementia in RA patients

17 Jan 2023 by

Among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), those with clinically active RA, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, depression, and anxiety are at greater risk of dementia, reveals a study. Among CVD events, ischaemic stroke and heart failure are significantly associated with an increased dementia risk.

17 Jan 2023

Septal reduction reduces HF readmission, improves survival in oHCM patients

17 Jan 2023

Septal reduction therapies (SRT) lower the readmission rates for heart failure (HF) in Medicare patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM), a study has shown.

17 Jan 2023

Artificial pancreas yields good results in type 2 diabetes patients

17 Jan 2023 by

A fully closed-loop insulin delivery system, also known as artificial pancreas, helps improve the management of type 2 diabetes in adults, increasing the time spent in target glucose range by 8 hours per day without promoting hypoglycaemic events as compared with standard insulin therapy, as reported in a study.

17 Jan 2023

Original New Drug Application Approvals by US FDA (01-15 January 2023)

17 Jan 2023

New drug applications approved by US FDA as of 01-15 January 2023 which includes New Molecular Entities (NMEs) and new biologics. It does not include Tentative Approvals. Supplemental approvals may have occurred since the original approval date.

17 Jan 2023

It’s time to do away with neutropenic diet post-HSCT – experts

17 Jan 2023 by

Adopting a low-microbial, protective (neutropenic) diet offers no clear benefit to patients following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in a study described as the first to investigate the role of neutropenic diet post-HSCT.

17 Jan 2023

Regional antibiotic delivery a viable option for patients with device implant infections

16 Jan 2023

Delivery of continuous, in situ–targeted, ultrahigh concentration of antibiotics (CITA) is a safe and effective therapy for patients with pocket infection who are neither suited nor willing to undergo extraction of implanted cardiovascular electronic device, reports a study.

16 Jan 2023

Can AI be as skilled as radiologists in interpreting images?

16 Jan 2023 by

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret radiographic images is possible if it can learn to read “noninterpretable images,” such as those of the abdomen and the axial skeleton, suggests a UK study.

16 Jan 2023