Can asthma protect men from lethal prostate cancer?
Men with asthma are less likely to have aggressive prostate cancer or to die from the disease, according to a large, prospective cohort study published in the International… read more.
Men with asthma are less likely to have aggressive prostate cancer or to die from the disease, according to a large, prospective cohort study published in the International… read more.
Early intervention facilitated by a digital health application for reporting symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) provides key benefits for patients, according to the results of a… read more.
A study published in Nature by Jos Lelieveld and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany, found that although air pollution has several causes,… read more.
In one of the largest population studies on pain to date, researchers with the National Institutes of Health estimate that nearly 40 million Americans experience severe pain and… read more.
An increase in fat mass index (FMI), but not body mass index (BMI), was associated with both prevalent and future foot pain, a large community-based study showed.
Dynamic leg muscle power is an independent determinant of pain and quality of life in knee osteoarthritis (OA), and it appears to outperform muscle strength as a measure… read more.
Despite improvements in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management, pain control remains inadequate in some patients even when inflammation is well controlled, according to a small Dutch study.
A recent review found that most newborns that are included in control groups during clinical trials concerning minor painful procedures are denied analgesia, despite international guidelines stating that… read more.
Vijayveer Bonthapally et al, Cambridge, MA, USA / by Maria Dalby. AETHERA is a randomised, placebo-controlled phase III study to evaluate whether consolidation treatment with brentuximab vedotin can… read more.
Zeinab Ali Abou Yehia et al, Houston, TX, USA / by Maria Dalby. PET-CT scans appear to be more sensitive than bone marrow biopsies for detecting bone marrow… read more.
John Ultmann Memorial Lecture / by Maria Dalby. Cutaneous lymphomas are rare conditions that require careful linking of clinical features with pathological findings for accurate diagnoses and effective… read more.
Steven H Swerdlow, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA, / by Maria Dalby. Knowledge is evolving fast in the field of lymphoma and the 2008 World Health Organization… read more.