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Lacosamide monotherapy for the treatment of childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes was well tolerated and resulted in significantly reduced seizures, according to a study published in Brain and Development. “Childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes is an age-limited epilepsy syndrome,” Tohru Okanishi, MD, PhD, associate professor of child neurology at Tottori University in
An 8-year-old boy was seen collecting money by dancing in the street in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC.
SAN DIEGO — Five-year relative survival for early-onset colorectal cancer improved over a 20-year period only among white patients, with no improvements for Black, Asian or Hispanic patients, per data at Digestive Disease Week 2022.“Our most stunning finding was that even over a 20-year span, Blacks had not caught up to whites in surviving early-onset CRC,” Timothy A. Zaki, MD,
SAN DIEGO — A new, low-cost scoring system called TREAT-B accurately determined treatment eligibility for patients with hepatitis B virus, particularly where DNA assays are unavailable, according to research. “Major international guidelines have recommended the criteria for initiating treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection. However, the hepatitis B DNA assay is not
SAN DIEGO — Liver stiffness assessment predicted liver-related complications and hepatocellular carcinoma development among patients with hepatitis C following direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to research. “HCV infection is one of the leading causes of cirrhosis, HCC and liver-related complications. Sustained virological response is achieved in 80% to 95% of chronic HCV