News & Updates

Red cell transfusion at a high-volume tertiary hospital in Singapore has an incidence of 3.2 percent in a multiethnic obstetric population, according to a study. Anaemia during pregnancy is the most common reason for transfusion administration.

Adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) may be omitted in women with very low-risk breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (BCS) and have been receiving endocrine therapy, according to findings from the LUMINA study.

Diabetes mellitus and overweight or obesity appear to increase susceptibility to COVID-19 among pregnant women, with insulin-dependent gestational diabetes mellitus being associated with the disease, according to data from INTERCOVID.

Maintenance monotherapy with olaparib appears safe and effective in Asian patients with platinum-sensitive relapsed (PSR) ovarian cancer, regardless of their BRCA status, as shown in the results of the phase III, open-label, single-arm L-MOCA study.

Long-term overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may be influenced by diabetes status, according to a retrospective study presented at ENDO 2022.

Vaginal antisepsis with chlorhexidine proves noninferior to that with iodine in terms of the incidence of gynaecologic surgery-associated urinary tract infection and vaginal irritation, as reported in a study.

Adherence to a healthy plant-based diet was tied to a reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a French study presented at Nutrition 2022. In contrast, an unhealthy plant-based diet may be tied to increased breast cancer risk.