Rare case of gallstone ileus reported in BMJ Hina Zahid23 Oct 2019 6:00 PM ISTDr Muhammad Qutayba Almerie at Department of General Surgery, Leeds University, St James's University Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK has reported a...
Probiotics and synbiotics use may help reduce postoperative infection risk, finds study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli21 Oct 2019 8:28 PM ISTPostoperative surgical infections are fairly common despite all the measures of disinfection or infection control. They account for a third of all...
Rare case of Levothyroxine-induced liver injury: a report Hina Zahid21 Oct 2019 6:00 PM ISTDr Abbas F. Hlaihel at ThiQar Medical School, Nasiriyyah, Iraq and colleagues have reported a rare case of Levothyroxine-induced liver injury. The...
Nanocapsules of turmeric compound may help treat H Pylori infection, finds study Hina Zahid20 Oct 2019 7:05 PM ISTScientists have uncovered a novel antibiotic-free approach that could help prevent and treat Helicobacter pylori infection. The scientists have...
A rare case of liver failure induced by mercury exposure and acetaminophen Hina Zahid18 Oct 2019 6:00 PM ISTDr Barathi Sivasailam at Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA and colleagues have reported a rare case of...
Surgery effective option for some GERD patients refractory to PPI's: NEJM Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli17 Oct 2019 8:10 PM ISTHeartburn that persists despite proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment is a frequent and taxing clinical problem. The present available treatment...
Tesamorelin prevents liver fibrosis in patients of HIV with NAFLD, finds NIH Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli15 Oct 2019 7:28 PM ISTNational Institutes of Health researches and their colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have found that the injectable hormone...
Vedolizumab effective for treatment of ulcerative colitis: NEJM Medha Baranwal Baranwal15 Oct 2019 7:05 PM ISTNew York: A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found vedolizumab (Entyvio, Takeda) to be superior to adalimumab...
Probiotics may rather increase risk of C. difficile infection instead of preventing it: Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli13 Oct 2019 8:00 PM ISTNew York: Probiotics, used for improving gut health, were thought to be a solution for preventing Clostridioides difficile infection or CDI and were...
Elderly patients of IBD on Thiopurines more likely to develop adverse events, finds study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli6 Oct 2019 7:10 PM ISTThiopurines are the most widely used immunosuppressants in Inflammatory bowel disease although drug‐related adverse events (AE) occur in 20%‐30% of...
Experts recommend against routine bowel cancer screening for all over 50s Hina Zahid2 Oct 2019 7:31 PM ISTBowel or colorectal cancer is a common type of cancer in men and women and about 1 in 20 people in most high-income countries will get it during their...
Vitamin D deficiency not linked to NAFLD severity in children, confirms study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli29 Sept 2019 9:03 AM ISTVitamin D deficiency not linked to NAFLD severity in children confirms a new study. The impact of vitamin D deficiency on the fatty liver has been...
