Osimertinib in lung cancer: added benefit not proven supriya kashyap kashyap22 Jun 2016 2:55 PM ISTOsimertinib has been approved since February 2016 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor...
Lung cancer: Scientists find answer to resistance supriya kashyap kashyap10 Sept 2017 9:30 AM ISTResearch at the University of Southern Denmark has revealed that a new combination of clinically tested drugs inhibits the growth of tumours, thereby...
Reconstructed adenoviruses found effective in cancer therapy Medical Dialogues Bureau5 Feb 2018 7:15 PM ISTUntil now the use of adenoviruses in tumor therapy has been very limited as they lack the ability to infect cancer cells.Therefore they cannot inject...
Metformin can be used in Diabetics with eGFRs as low as 30 : JAMA Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli5 Jun 2018 8:30 PM ISTAccording to an estimate more than 1 million patients in the United States with type 2 diabetes mellitus and mild-to-moderate kidney disease do not...
Horseshoe kidney in a deceased organ donor, a rare glimpse! LANCET case report Hina Zahid9 Jun 2018 7:03 PM ISTA very surprising and unique case of its kind was presented where a CT scan report of a man diagnosed with brain death showed a horseshoe kidney. The...
CT Volumetry as good as Scintigraphy to predict outcome in Renal Donors : Dr. Niharika Prasad Hina Zahid23 July 2018 7:04 PM ISTIn recent times Computed Tomography (CT) Volumetry has been tried as an alternative to scintigraphy for the evaluation of pre-donation split renal...
Tolvaptan delays kidney failure in polycystic kidney disease Vinay Singh singh23 July 2018 8:10 PM ISTLong-term efficacy of tolvaptan used to treat patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), a common cause of kidney failure...
Beta blockers reduce deaths in patients with moderate Kidney Dysfunction: ESC 2019 Update Deepanjana Sarkar10 Sept 2019 8:20 PM ISTParis-Beta blockers have been found effective in reducing deaths in patients with heart failure and moderate or moderately severe Kidney Dysfunction,...
Vitamin D and omega-3 of no benefit in diabetic kidney disease finds JAMA Study Medha Baranwal Baranwal11 Nov 2019 7:20 PM ISTUSA: Refuting the beneficial role of vitamin D supplements for type 2 diabetes patients, the researchers have found that supplements of vitamin D and...
Addition of diabetes drug Metformin improves survival in lung cancer patients: JAMA Oncology Medha Baranwal Baranwal20 Sept 2019 7:10 PM ISTMexico: The diabetes drug metformin apart from lowering blood sugar in type 2 diabetes patients has been previously shown to have varied benefit in...
Renal replacement therapy and conservative management: NICE 2018 Hina Zahid7 Nov 2018 7:00 PM ISTNICE has released its 2018 guidelines on Renal replacement therapy and conservative management. Following are the major recommendations:Indications...
Kidney Functions decline more rapidly in diagnosed Diabetics Vinay Singh singh16 Jun 2018 7:15 PM ISTRapid kidney function decline is found more in individuals with diagnosed diabetes than those without diabetes, according to a study published in the...
