New Delhi: Cell and gene therapy (CGT) will have the greatest impact on the pharmaceutical industry in 2024, according to a report on Thursday. The report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company, is based on a survey of 115 healthcare industry professionals. It revealed that 18 per cent of industry professionals were convinced that CGT […]
Critical care, once a nascent speciality, gained prominence when ICUs were inundated with COVID-19 patients in 2020. The demand for critical care has since escalated across healthcare institutions due to an ageing population. As a result, the speciality is now branching into various subspecialties such as neurocritical care, transplant critical care, oncological critical care, and […]
Practice parameters in clinical neuroscience have been fine-tuned in line with hard evidence to a large measure by many randomised control trials (RCT) over the years. Many RCTs have been well conceived and executed, but some have been dodged by controversies on sample size, design, and biases. Those that have stood the test of time […]
Washim: In a shocking incident, a medical officer working at an emergency department of a sub-district hospital in Karanja has been released from duty until investigation after he was allegedly found in an intoxicated state during duty hours. The video showing the incident went viral on social media. Following the circulation of the video depicting […]
Kozhikode: In the latest update regarding the alleged medical negligence case in Government Medical College Hospital (GMC) Kozhikode where forceps were reportedly left inside a female patient’s abdomen, the Medical College police have submitted a 750-page chargesheet against all four accused connected with the case in a Kunnamangalam court. The four accused in the case […]
USA: A recent study published in Arthritis Care & Research has shown frailty to be an important predictor for the risk of serious infections among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with biologic (b) or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (tsDMARDs). Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are a group of medications commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Some […]
Italy: Researchers have identified a key mediator of symptomatic vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), allowing the development of a range of preventative measures for combatting this disease. Their findings were published online in Science Translational Medicine. “New research could one day pave the way for the treatment of vaginal yeast infections, by shedding new light on how […]
New research sheds light on the potential association between vitamin D levels and insulin resistance in children, particularly among ethnic minority populations. The study, a cross-sectional analysis involving 4650 primary school children aged 9–10 years in the UK, predominantly from South Asian, black African Caribbean, and white European backgrounds, examined the relationship between circulating vitamin […]
The impact of blood pressure and cholesterol levels on coronary heart disease (CHD) risk across different life stages has always been a subject of uncertainty. A recent study by the Nelson Wang and team utilized data from the UK Biobank and looked into the long term implications of elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) and low-density […]
In a recent study published in the Annals of Intensive Care uncovered a significant difference in the risk of extubation failure between male and female patients in intensive care setting. This post hoc analysis of a large-scale clinical trial focused on patients at high risk of extubation failure in intensive care units (ICUs) and explored […]