Cognitive-behavioral sleep intervention with nutritional support improves sleep, survival in rectal cancer surgery patients
A Simple Pre-Surgery Habit Change Boosts Cancer Survival Rates
A single-center RCT of 186 stage I-III rectal cancer patients found that adding cognitive-behavioral sleep intervention with nutritional sup…
Teaching patients how to sleep and eat better before a major cancer surgery doesn’t just help them recover—it may help them live longer.
Diet-induced liver fat reduction associated with fasting metabolite changes but not postprandial responses
Your Liver Fat May Be Changing Your Blood After Meals
An integrated RCT and cohort study in 1986 individuals and 80 intervention participants examined liver fat associations with metabolite prof…
What happens in your blood after a meal could be a clearer sign of liver health than a standard fasting test.
SBCE as initial investigation reduces DBE referrals in suspected small bowel Crohn's disease cohort
Skip the invasive scope with this new rule
This retrospective cohort analysis of 98 patients referred for suspected small bowel Crohn's disease compared SBCE as initial investigation …
A simple pill-sized camera can now rule in or out Crohn's disease for 70% of patients, saving them from a more invasive follow-up test.
Endoscopic findings predict advanced gastric signet ring cell carcinoma in CDH1 carriers
A Safer Path for Families with Hereditary Stomach Cancer?
This retrospective observational study examined 390 CDH1 pathogenic variant carriers from 235 families across twelve academic centers.
For families with a high genetic risk for stomach cancer, new research shows advanced tumors often have visible warning signs during standar…
Efruxifermin shows superior fibrosis regression in compensated MASH cirrhosis compared to placebo in a network meta-analysis
New drug ranking shows one treatment stands out for advanced fatty liver scarring
This network meta-analysis evaluated histological efficacy in patients with biopsy-proven compensated metabolic dysfunction-associated steat…
Efruxifermin is the only drug proven to shrink advanced liver scarring without worsening the disease, ranking first among new treatments for…
Carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae infection is associated with significantly higher mortality compared to carbapenem-susceptible strains in 4240 patients
Resistant superbugs kill more than 12 times as often as susceptible strains in severe infections
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated clinical outcomes in 4240 patients with hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (HvKp) infect…
When bacteria resists last-resort antibiotics, patients with severe infections face a 57% death risk instead of 21%.
Hyperferritinemia is associated with higher liver-related event incidence in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
Is high iron protein in your blood a warning sign for worse liver disease outcomes?
This meta-analysis pooled data from 16 observational studies involving 49,754 patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver…
High iron protein levels in blood nearly double the risk of serious liver events for patients with fatty liver disease, flagging a group nee…
Network meta-analysis ranks exercise types for colorectal cancer survivors post-resection based on specific outcomes
Exercise types ranked for colorectal cancer survivors after surgery
This network meta-analysis evaluated aerobic training (AT), resistance training (RT), combined training (CT), and high-intensity interval tr…
This network meta-analysis compared aerobic, resistance, combined, and high-intensity interval training for colorectal cancer survivors afte…
Antenatal pelvic floor exercise reduces perineal laceration risk in primiparous women during vaginal delivery
Want to Avoid Tearing During Childbirth? Science Points to One Clear Winner
This Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluated physical interventions in 10,745 primiparous women across 15 h…
Simple pelvic floor exercises during pregnancy cut the risk of painful childbirth tears by half, outperforming massage and education alone.
Meta-analysis finds fatty pancreas disease in over half of adults with MASLD
Do you have fatty liver? A new look suggests your pancreas might be fatty too
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 observational studies including 21,438 adults with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic li…
If you have fatty liver disease, your pancreas is likely fatty too, with rates reaching over 75% in non-Asian groups and 35% in Asian popula…
Thymosin alpha1 added to standard therapy improved 90-day transplant-free survival in 73 patients with HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure
Thymosin alpha1 may improve survival in hepatitis B liver failure patients
This open-label randomized controlled trial enrolled 73 patients with hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure.
Adding thymosin alpha1 to standard therapy helped hepatitis B liver failure patients survive longer without needing a transplant.
Laparoscopy-assisted trans-umbilical Meckel's diverticulectomy described in pediatric case series
Can a small keyhole surgery safely fix a rare gut blockage in children?
A case series and literature review of 28 pediatric patients with Meckel's diverticulum complicated by internal hernia described laparoscopy…
A rare gut blockage in children was safely fixed using a small keyhole surgery that kept recovery quick with no complications reported.