Mobile Windows News Today

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Changes in HDL level may be linked with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk and subsequent outcomes in COVID-19, a speaker reported. Vignesh Chidambaram, MD MPH, internal medicine resident in the laboratory of Jawahar L. Mehta, MD, PhD, Stebbins Chair and professor of medicine at the college of medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, won the first-place

Strategies for cell therapy to treat cancer very depending on the type of tumor, according to experts.

Patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis who have a history of autoimmune disease prior to diagnosis may have fewer relapses following remission, according to data published in Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology.

For patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who showed an inadequate response to front-line immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy, the addition of CAN-2409 was well-tolerated. The preliminary clinical data of CAN-2409, a replication-deficient adenoviral gene construct that delivers the thymidine kinase gene, was presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Endovascular therapy is now a standard treatment for select patients with severe ischemic stroke to improve the likelihood of functional recovery; yet there remains a paucity of research on outcomes by sex and gender.The American Heart Association in June published a scientific statement on sex- and gender-related differences in endovascular stroke treatment in Stroke. The statement

Despite higher pain scores at 8 hours postoperatively and increased opioid use, local infiltration analgesia was less costly and yielded similar pain scores at 24 hours after shoulder arthroplasty compared with an interscalene block.In a level-1, prospective randomized trial, Michael Ewing, MD, and colleagues from the University of Missouri compared outcomes between 37 patients who underwent

The FDA granted priority review to mosunetuzumab for treatment of certain patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.The designation applies to use of the agent by adults who received at least two prior systemic therapies.

Individuals aged 65 years and older with a history of hypothyroidism were associated with an 81% increased risk for dementia, researchers reported in Neurology. “In some cases, thyroid disorders have been associated with dementia symptoms that can be reversible with treatment,” Chien-Hsiang Weng, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School

Drugs that target the noradrenergic system may improve cognition and apathy in patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer’s disease but have little effect on attention or episodic memory, researchers reported. Michael C. B. David, MBBS, a research fellow and PhD candidate at Imperial College London, and colleagues aimed to assess the efficacy of drugs with

Researchers identified five common themes among Indigenous patients with chronic kidney disease when exploring their relationship with health care, according to data published in Kidney International.“Indigenous peoples are defined as those who first lived in a region and have distinct cultural traditions, knowledge and language which provides a basis for positive self-image and healthy