2023-07-11 15:30:55 medicine Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Vienna – Mutations in the gene for the protein Dock11 can disrupt blood formation in the bone marrow, which leads to anemia and severe immune system disorders in the affected infants and young children. An international research team describes the previously unknown genetic defect in the New England … Read more
2023-07-11 15:30:55 medicine Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Milan – The administration of the beta-lactam antibiotic meropenem as a continuous infusion does not appear to have any advantage for sepsis patients treated in the intensive care unit, at least not in terms of mortality and the development of antibiotic resistance. This is shown by the results … Read more
2023-06-09 15:30:50 medicine Friday 9 June 2023 Baltimore – In the years after a heart attack, patients’ cognition, memory and executive functions apparently deteriorate faster than before the event. This is shown by a cohort study with pooled data from more than 30,000 adults, the results of which have now been published in JAMA Neurology … Read more
2023-05-02 16:19:33 medicine Tuesday, May 2, 2023 Durham, North Carolina – Cognitive dysfunction is a common post-stroke problem that the American Heart Association says is underestimated. In a Scientific Statement in Stroke (2023; DOI: 10.1161/STR.00000000000000430), the US cardiologists advise regularly examining all patients after a stroke for cognitive disorders. The motor and sensory deficits are … Read more
2023-04-28 16:02:39 medicine Friday April 28, 2023 Baltimore – A high-dose treatment with vitamin D has again in a randomized study not demonstrably influenced the course of multiple sclerosis (MS). The results, recently presented at the ACTRIMS conference in San Diego, have now been published in eClinicalMedicine (2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101957). MS is known to be … Read more
medicine Thursday April 13, 2023 Bethesda/Maryland – The increased risk of cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected people as a result of the disease can be significantly reduced by treatment with an appropriate statin. This is shown by the results of the randomized, controlled REPRIEVE study, which was terminated prematurely after an interim analysis, as the US … Read more
medicine Friday March 31, 2023 Regensburg – The administration of antibiotics can influence the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies. This is reported by an international working group together with Hendrik Poeck, senior physician in charge of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine III of the University Hospital Regensburg, in the journal Nature Medicine (2023; DOI: … Read more
medicine Friday March 31, 2023 Stuttgart – Therapy resistance that is particularly common in ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas (PDAC) could be prevented or reversed. This is the result of researchers led by the Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Diseases in Stuttgart using in vitro and in vivo models of resistant PDAC. The study was … Read more