Among patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a low-resource setting, those treated with adjunctive low-dose glucocorticoids had a lower risk of all-cause mortality, according to study findings published in the New…
For much of the past century, Alzheimer’s disease has been one of medicine’s most daunting frontiers – biologically complex, devastating in impact, and difficult to diagnose early. Conventional diagnostic methods like positron…
Researchers at Touro University Nevada have discovered that tiny particles in the blood, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a major player in how a group of hormones are shuttled through the body. Physical exercise can…
Six particular depressive symptoms when experienced in midlife predict dementia risk more than two decades later, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
Midlife depression has long been considered a…
Early research studies in Africa that found higher education was associated with a greater risk of HIV have often been dismissed as errors or anomalies, especially once later research suggested the opposite pattern. But a recently published…
Giving adolescents living with HIV high-dose vitamin D and calcium supplements can help improve their bone density and reduce the risk of fractures, a new study published in The Lancet…
HIV drug resistance is common across sub-Saharan Africa, with new population-level data showing that more than one in three people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) carried at least one resistance-associated mutation between 2015 and 2019,…
The use of a new narrative nursing model had a positive influence on patients undergoing laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, according to a recent study from Chinese researchers.
“The routine nursing model itself focuses on the…
Researchers found that feeding directions on adult maintenance cat foods sold in Canada differed from commonly used predictive energy equations, with discrepancies influenced by product type, feeding unit and label claims. University of Guelph…
In a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they may have taken an early step toward a more practical HIV cure. The researchers focused on a…