Vaccination boosted immunity acquired from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection
1. Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine were linked to high immediate protection...
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Abiraterone plus prednisone improves survival in patients with de novo metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer
1. A combination of androgen deprivation therapy, docetaxel, and abiraterone (“triplet therapy”)...
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Mitapivat efficacious in treating pyruvate kinase deficiency
1. Compared to placebo, mitapivat was found to be effective in treating hemolytic anemia and...
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Green Mediterranean diet reduced age-related brain atrophy
1. In this study, participants over the age of 50 had more brain atrophy within 18-months compared...
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Inactivated, adjuvant enterovirus 71 vaccine is safe and effective against fatal enterovirus infections in children aged 2-71 months
1. EV71vac showed a vaccine efficacy of 96.8% against EV71-associated diseases. 2. Majority of...
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Ambient air pollution associated with increased risk of Kawasaki disease in children
1. Short-term increases in concentrations of air pollutants, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate...
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Weight loss and lifestyle interventions significantly decrease obstructive sleep apnea severity
1. In this study, comprehensive lifestyle interventions significantly decreased severity of...
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BNT162b2 vaccination after SARS-CoV-2 infection decreases risk of recurrent infection
1. In a retrospective cohort study of individuals who recovered from SARS-CoV-2, BNT162b2...
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Protection against SARS-CoV-2 highest after infection-acquired immunity boosted with vaccination in health care workers
1. SARS-CoV-2 infection-acquired immunity waned after 1 year, but immune protection remained high...
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Single-incision mini-slings effective for urinary incontinence in women
1. Compared to standard midurethral slings, single-incision mini-slings were noninferior in...
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Neoadjuvant nivolumab improves survival in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer
1. Patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving neoadjuvant nivolumab in...
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Treatment with chemoradiotherapy before systemic chemotherapy for rectal adenocarcinoma is a potential non-surgical option
1. Disease-free survival was not impacted by the order in which chemoradiotherapy CRT and systemic...
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An implantable system overcomes orthostatic hypotension in a patient with multiple-system atrophy
1. In this case report, a patient with multiple-system atrophy was alleviated from orthostatic...
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Adequate sleep may reduce energy intake and weight in overweight adults
1. In this study, individualized sleep hygiene counseling was sufficient to extend bed duration in...
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Noninvasive ventilation with neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NIV-NAVA) outperforms nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) post-extubation in preterm infants
1. In a randomized controlled trial of 70 infants born before 30 weeks’ gestation, rates of...
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#VisualAbstract: Upper neck irradiation is noninferior to whole neck irradiation for newly diagnosed nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Click to read this study in The Lancet Oncology.
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More severe symptoms and hospitalizations seen during period of COVID-19 delta variant dominance compared to omicron
1. Loss of sense of smell was more common during a period of delta dominance, while sore throat...
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Increases in muscle-strengthening activities may reduce mortality risk and certain diseases
1. Muscle-strengthening activities (MSA) were associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular...
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#VisualAbstract: Aromatase inhibitors significantly reduce recurrence in premenopausal women with ER+ breast cancer and ovarian suppression
Click to read this study in The Lancet Oncology.
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