A New retrospective analysis of data from patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease (MOGAD) suggests that immunotherapy is associated with a lower risk of recurrence. However, the authors note that many MOGAD patients never experience a recurrence and that it is difficult to identify the patients who get a recurrence. MOGAD can cause optic […]
Within the framework of World Prematurity Day, which is commemorated every November 17, the «Prematurity Week» is also taken, in 2022 from the 14th to the 17th of the same month to raise awareness about the care of these children and their families. This year the theme is «The embrace of the family, a […]
Background Previous studies have shown that smoking increases cancer-specific and all-cause mortality in women with breast cancer. However, the benefits of smoking cessation in women with breast cancer are controversial. Insight Among women with breast cancer, smokers had a 22%-25% higher risk of cancer-specific mortality or mortality compared to non-smokers.All-cause mortality. This result corresponds in […]
Ministry of Health Circular of Indications for use of the VidPrevtyn Beta (Sanofi) vaccine as part of the anti-Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 vaccination campaign The Technical Scientific Commission of AIFA, in the session of , accepting the opinion expressed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), approved the indication of use of the VidPrevtyn Beta vaccine (Sanofi), as a […]
In Japan, researchers have created viable mice with two biological fathers. The team led by Katsuhiko Hayashi from the University of Osaka converted skin cells from male mice into egg cells in the laboratory in several steps, , as the researchers write in the journal Nature. These eggs were fertilized with sperm from other male […]
La Clinical definition of Myocardial infarction involves the presence of acute myocardial injury detected by abnormal cardiac biomarkers in the context of evidence of acute myocardial ischemia (1). Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and T (cTnT) are components of the contractile apparatus of myocardial cells and are expressed almost exclusively in the heart. cTnI and cTnT […]
Key messages Recombinant endolysine XZ.700 is able to hinder colonization of the skin of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) by the Staphylococcus aureus. Endolysin XZ.700 could be an alternative to antibiotics in patients with CTCL and in general in patients with S infections.aureus antibiotic resistant (MRSA). In addition, in vitro, endolysine treatment counteracts the […]
Key message The BPaLM regimen (bedaquiline, pretomanide, linezolide, moxifloxacin) lasting 24 weeks is not inferior to the standard treatment of 9-20 months for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis. A study funded by Médecins Sans Frontières shows that the BPaLM regimen (bedaquiline, pretomanide, linezolide, moxifloxacin) is not inferior to standard treatment for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis.Data published in […]
A pill Non-hormonal contraceptives for men could soon be a reality. A US study on mice recently showed that a prototype male pill can block sperm for a few hours. While men are increasingly willing to share the burden of contraception with their partners, male contraception is currently limited to condom use and the ability […]
Rome, 20 Jan. (Adnkronos Health) — In a few years after being diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis, one of the most serious forms of the neurodegenerative disease, Catherine could no longer speak, swallow or walk. It is thanks to scientific research funded by the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association (AISM) and its Foundation (Fism), also through […]