August 5th, 2020Appendicitis is the most common cause for emergency abdominal surgery in childhood, affecting 80,000 children in the US each year, but non-operative treatment options are viable. A study performed by the Midwest Paediatric Surgery Consortium, led by...
Faecal microbial transplantation (FMT) as a treatment for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is more effective and more cost-efficient treatment than using antibiotics, a study by researchers at University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth...Clinical Medicine
The number of people evaluated for signs of stroke at US hospitals has dropped by nearly 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study led by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis who analysed stroke...
April 29th, 2020
Blood pressure readings taken from neuroscience intensive care unit (NSICU) patients had marked differences between opposite sides of the body and different anatomical sites in each individual, highlighting the significant and sometimes extreme...
March 11th, 2020
Current limited evidence of the benefits of medical cannabis may be outweighed by the lack of consistent efficacy and risk of adverse effects, since no products are currently registered by the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA),...
June 5th, 2019A specialised pain management programme for patients who underwent robotic surgery for urologic cancers resulted in just 8% going home with narcotics after discharge, compared to 100% who would have received them without this enhanced recovery...
May 1st, 2019
The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is the largest study of people who have gone through the transgendering process, providing data on the best treatments and outcomes.
Sara Readon writes in...
April 17th, 2019A UK clinical review provides new interim advice for doctors and clinicians in prescribing cannabis-based products and cannabinoids to treat certain conditions.
Since a policy change in November 2018, specialist doctors registered with the UK’s...
March 27th, 2019People with heart disease are more likely to suffer from depression, and the opposite is also true. Now, scientists at the University of Cambridge believe they have identified a link between these two conditions: inflammation – the body's response...
November 28th, 2018
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created an easy-to-make, low-cost injectable hydrogel that could help wounds heal faster, especially for patients with compromised health issues.
Wound healing can be complex and...
February 21st, 2018A short, sharp, cold-water swim may offer an alternative to strong painkillers and physiotherapy to relieve severe persistent pain after surgery, suggest doctors from the department of psychiatry, University of Cambridge and the School of Health...
January 24th, 2018
Steroids reduced the duration of septic shock and the time spent on life support therapy in intensive care, but did not lead to fewer deaths overall, an international trial conducted in 3,800 patients found.
The results from the largest ever...
Survivors of cardiac arrest who remain in comas have better survival and neurological outcomes when their body temperatures are lowered.Clinical Medicine
Adult survivors of childhood cancer stay in better health and require fewer visits to emergency departments if they are patients of specialised survivor clinics.Clinical Medicine
Declaring they had 'potentially lifesaving information' the US National Institutes of Health have ended a major study over a year early because it has already conclusively answered a question cardiologists have long puzzled over: How low should...Clinical Medicine
