News & Updates

Diabetic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) are at greater risk of developing diabetic retinopathy (DR), reveals a study, noting the need for screening and comprehensive management in glaucomatous patients with diabetes to reduce the risk of DR.

Use of aspirin, although safe, does not appear to provide any meaningful beneficial effects for diabetic retinopathy (DR), a study has shown.

Nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg helps preserve the bladder in patients with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) at 5 years, with an acceptable safety profile, as shown in a phase III trial.

Treatment with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) results in excellent local tumour control and improves survival among patients with oligometastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with no serious adverse effects, reports a study.

The human monoclonal antibody pamrevlumab fails to deliver benefit for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in the phase III ZEPHYRUS-1 trial.

Nine-month, fully oral modified short treatment regimens (mSTRs) consisting of bedaquiline, linezolid, levofloxacin, clofazimine, and cycloserine or delamanid appear to yield high treatment success and good safety results in the treatment of patients with rifampicin-resistant, fluoroquinolone-susceptible tuberculosis (TB), according to a study.

Among patients with bladder cancer (BC), those who do not smoke appear to have better longitudinal health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures, particularly in the domains of physical function, emotional function, and fatigue, according to a recent study.