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Performing physical activity even at light intensity can increase people’s chances of living a long life, as suggested in a study.
Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) does not appear to be beneficial in the treatment of active peripheral psoriatic arthritis, with a recent study showing that although FMT does not increase the incidence of serious adverse events, it is inferior to sham.
In postmenopausal women, both higher dietary cholesterol intake and egg consumption appear to moderately increase the risk of incidence cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality, as shown in a recent US study.
Physical frailty appears to accelerate the development of geriatric outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), reveals a study.
SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the kidneys, leading to tubular pathogenesis and acute kidney injury, a recent study has found.
A large number of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remain on remission following discontinuation of antitumour necrosis factor alpha (anti‐TNF) treatment, a study has found. Furthermore, retreatment with the same anti-TNF is usually effective for managing relapse.
First-line treatment with the bispecific fusion protein tebentafusp demonstrated an overall survival (OS) benefit in patients with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*02:01-positive metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM), according to a phase III, open-label trial presented at AACR 2021.
Special Reports
In a webinar held on 27 March 2021, paediatric
endocrinology nurses Karen Blair,
Kate Davies, and Siti Zarina Yaakop shared
insights and clinical experience based
on their frontline roles in caring for patients
with central precocious puberty (CPP)
and supporting their family members.
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at risk of developing serious infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), which require appropriate and adequate antibiotic coverage. Early empirical coverage is pivotal in saving patients’ lives. At a recent webinar co-organized by the Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) and Pfizer, renowned Professor David Paterson, Professor of Medicine and Director, The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, and Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, discussed the role of newer antimicrobial agents, including ceftazidime-avibactam (Zavicefta) in the management of MDROs in the ICU. Dr Wong Sin Yew, Infectious Disease Physician at Gleneagles Medical Centre and Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre, Singapore, chaired the event.
In Singapore, advanced breast cancer (aBC) is the leading cause of cancer death in women 30–49 years of age. For premenopausal women diagnosed with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative BC, cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors provide new hope. Currently, ribociclib is the only CDK4/6 inhibitor studied in the first-line setting for premenopausal women with HR+/HER2- aBC, in the phase III MONALEESA-7 trial. Two experts, Dr Wong Seng Weng, Medical Director & Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Cancer Centre, Paragon Medical & Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre, and Dr Lee Guek Eng, Senior Consultant & Specialist in Medical Oncology at Icon Cancer Centre and Program Director of the Young Women Cancer Program, weigh in with their views on managing premenopausal women with aBC.
Chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The dual goals of CCS management is to prevent future cardiac events, such as myocardial infarction and death, and to reduce ischaemia and relieve angina symptoms, says Prof Peter Yan, consultant cardiologist and medical director, Peter Yan Cardiology Clinic, Gleneagles Medical Centre, Singapore, during a Servier-sponsored virtual symposium.
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During a recent GSK webinar, Professor Norbert Berend and Dr Gur Levy discussed the principles of asthma management and its applications, specifically addressing and challenging the use of maintenance and reliever therapy (MART). Additionally, they also highlighted recent updates on the budesonide/formoterol PRN regimen.
Primary immunodeficiency disease (PIDD) and allergies are two groups of conditions related to the immune system. However, they are uniquely different in terms of symptoms and treatment.
Conference Reports
First-line treatment with the bispecific fusion protein tebentafusp demonstrated an overall survival (OS) benefit in patients with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*02:01-positive metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM), according to a phase III, open-label trial presented at AACR 2021.
Undergoing a structured weight loss programme after ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) does not confer significant reduction in AF burden compared with usual care, according to the SORT-AF* study presented at EHRA 2021.
The anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab may help improve patient outcomes vs docetaxel as second- or third-line treatment for advanced or metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) regardless of histology or PD-L1 expression, interim findings from the phase III RATIONALE 303 study have shown.
Niraparib maintenance therapy improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer (PSROC) regardless of time to progression since penultimate platinum chemotherapy or response to last chemotherapy, according to subgroup analyses of the NORA trial.
The combination of the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab and the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab continues to demonstrate significant clinical benefits vs the oral multikinase inhibitor sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to updated results from the IMbrave150 trial.
The anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody sintilimab outperformed docetaxel as second-line treatment for advanced and metastatic squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to the results of the phase III ORIENT-3 trial presented at AACR 2021.
About 50 percent of children who develop Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) present with neurological features, according to a small study presented at AAN 2021.
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