Novità nel mondo di Medicina di Laboratorio

After many years of stroke being subsumed within other parts of ICD, it now is listed under neurology. Once classified as a circulatory problem, stroke is a brain disorder in the new ICD-11.
Medscape Medical News

Improvements in HbA1c and NASH biomarker favored the procedure over sham procedure in first-ever randomized, double-blind prospective study.
Medscape Medical News

Artificial intelligence is already making significant improvements to clinical decision-making and cancer detection, according to UK data, even while the potential implications have yet to be fully realised.
Medscape News UK

Is the FGSI score a valid tool for predicting clinical outcomes of patients with Fournier's gangrene?
Translational Andrology and Urology

The Wright brothers studied how birds fly before the aviation pioneers built the world's first successful airplane. Now, investigators are looking at new animal-inspired ideas for joint care.
Medscape Medical News

Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy is associated with higher infection rates in children with normal CYP2C19 function, with infections occurring in 40% of such infants in a retrospective study.
Reuters Health Information

A small pilot study finds that vaping CBD products might lead to a positive urine test for marijuana, researchers report.
Reuters Health Information

Almost 12% of couples with recurrent miscarriage have chromosomal abnormalities, according to results of low-pass genome sequencing (GS) studies.
Reuters Health Information

Vitamin E acetate was universally found in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from patients with vaping lung injury, providing the first direct evidence of vitamin E acetate at the site of injury.
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Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
Medscape

Neither vitamin D3 nor omega-3 fatty acids affected eGFR at 5 years in a sub-study of the VITAL trial. Doctors need to make it clear to patients that there are no benefits of these supplements, says author.
Medscape Medical News

Centers of excellence are seeing much improved survival rates for anaplastic thyroid cancer; upcoming guidelines from ATA will underscore best practices for genetic testing and treatment regimens.
Medscape Medical News

A benign course of multiple sclerosis is rare, but a 5-year study shows younger patient age, earlier disease onset, female gender, and other factors may predict which MS cases will be benign.
Medscape Medical News

Robert Folberg's success was 2 decades in the making after his team discovered vasculogenic mimicry. Their original report received a frosty reception, but has since been cited more than 1900 times.
Medscape Medical News

Updates to European prostate cancer guidelines are already being considered after a major study shows that men carrying mutations of the BRCA2 gene have an increased risk for the disease at an earlier age.
Medscape Medical News

The results suggest that vascular risk monitoring should begin earlier than it currently occurs in order to prevent future dementia risk, researchers say.
Medscape Medical News

The burdens of managing a chronic disease like diabetes may lead women to skip recommended cancer screenings, researchers say.
Reuters Health Information

A new deep learning AI system uses image similarity to generate unique fingerprints of thyroid nodules, with the potential to reduce unnecessary biopsies compared with other noninvasive classification.
Medscape Medical News

A small study shows that self-collected vaginal or urine samples can be used to detect precancerous cervical lesions, and could eventually replace the Pap 'smear' test.
Medscape Medical News

The Sentosa SQ HIV genotyping assay is the first HIV drug resistance assay that uses next generation sequencing technology that the FDA has authorized for use.
FDA Approvals