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Whether infants were born via vaginal or cesarean delivery did not lead to meaningful differences in likelihood of food allergy at age 12 months, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The lack of likelihood persisted regardless of onset of labor or whether cesarean deliveries were elected or emergent, Anne Currell, MEpi, a researcher in population
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
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 FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed anatomic-based medial collateral ligament repair and MCL reconstruction may be equivalent based on objective knee laxity, but MCL reconstruction had better subjective outcomes. Nicholas N. DePhillipo, PhD, ATC, and colleagues randomly assigned 54 patients with grade 3 MCL tears with or without concomitant ACL injuries to undergo either an