The impact of blood glucose control on the degree of required medical interventions and mortality in patients with COVID-19 and T2DM remains uncertain. A recent retrospective study involving 7337 patients with COVID-19, among which 952 cases had pre...
“Writer’s bump” is a condition which callouses formed on the lateral knuckle of the third finger in individuals who tightly gripped pens or pencils. Similarly, thumb callouses have been reported to develop due to excessive video ga...
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) accounts for approximately 80% of acute leukaemia diagnosed in adults and the 5-year overall AML survival rate is 15%. Mutational status of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) is now well recognised as delineating a subty...
Although the benefits of fish oil supplementation are well known, real-life evidence on the effectiveness of fish oil supplements is limited. Recently, a population-based prospective evaluation on the associations of habitual fish oil supplementatio...
In a nationwide study of patients with chronic viral hepatitis in Sweden, the long-term effects of low-dose (≤160 mg) aspirin on incident hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver-related mortality, and gastrointestinal bleeding were investigated. 50...
The 24-hour Movement Guidelines have been well-established. However, based on an analytic sample consisted of 692 local adolescents aged 11-18 years (53% girls), only 1.0% of adolescents met all of the recommendations in the Guidelines, whereas only...
A recent longitudinal study investigated the associations between mobile phone dependence and mental health status among Chinese undergraduate students indicated that the prevalence of anxiety and depression at Year 3 was 7.5% and 9.4%, respectively...
X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), the most common form of recessive RP, is caused by the mutation of RP GTPase regulator gene (RPGR). Recently, an early phase clinical trial (XIRIUS) reported the safety profile and visual improvement in male patie...
With growing awareness on personal and household hygiene against infections, the increased use of cleaning products may ring an alarm. A Canadian longitudinal study revealed that frequent use of cleaning products in homes of infants may increase the...
The associations between 4 types of food, including processed meat, unprocessed red meat, poultry and fish, and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality were recently reported. The diet data from 1985 to 2002 of a pooled cohort ...
In order to combat the current outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (nCoV) reported in Wuhan, China, Chinese scientists select 30 medications including traditional Chinese medicines as candidates against nCoV 1 . In particular, an ant...
The outbreak of atypical pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China is still ongoing and has spread to other regions in China and overseas. It has been reported that the estimated basic reproductive number (Ro) of COVID-19 repo...
