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For patients with a sellar tumour, an endoscopic endonasal surgery is a generally gentle method of intervention with minimal long-term impacts on sinonasal quality of life, a recent study has found.

Speech and language therapy (SLT)—delivered over 4–5 days weekly for up to 50 hours in total—yields the greatest overall language, functional communication, and auditory comprehension gains for patients with stroke-related aphasia, according to data from the RELEASE* study.

Neither prenatal nicotine nor cannabis exposure adversely affects offspring intelligence quotient (IQ), a study reports. However, cannabis exposure appears to have unfavourable effects on attention in early childhood.

Following a diet with high pro-inflammatory potential is associated with an increased risk of developing dementia, suggest data from the HELIAD* study.

A randomized clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and clinicians at Shatin Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong finds computer-assisted rapid movement training (RMT) to be as effective as conventional balance training (CBT) at improving chronic stroke survivors’ overall balance, motor function and balance recovery, indicating potential for home-based telerehabilitation.

An observational single-institution cohort study provides evidence that levetiracetam use throughout the duration of standard chemotherapy is associated with longer median overall survival (OS) in patients with isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type glioblastoma.

Undergoing a surgery to remove the gallbladder appears to contribute to an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease (PD) in men, a study has found.