Meta-analysis shows yoga may improve physical function over exercise for chronic low back pain in adults.
Yoga Beats Exercise For Back Pain Relief
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated seven randomized controlled trials involving adults with non-specific chronic low back pa…
Yoga improves physical function and emotional wellbeing for chronic back pain better than standard exercise programs, offering a unique mind…
Preoperative information packages influence patient preferences in refractive surgery
What Patients Actually Want to Know Before Eye Surgery
This systematic review analyzed data from 1,194 refractive surgery patients across two Chinese hospitals to evaluate patient preferences for…
Before refractive eye surgery, patients want emotional support and two-way conversations instead of just more written information.
Qishen Yiqi dropping pills plus conventional Western medicine improved efficacy in chronic heart failure patients.
Adding Chinese herbs to heart failure drugs works better
This randomized controlled trial enrolled 120 patients with chronic heart failure. The study group received Qishen Yiqi dropping pills along…
Adding Chinese herbs to standard heart failure drugs improved patient results more than Western medicine alone in a new study.
Sarcopenia linked to higher acute cholecystitis risk in older adults with incidental gallstones
Muscle Loss May Predict a Painful Gallbladder Attack in Older Adults
A retrospective cohort study of 1,177 patients aged ≥65 years with incidental gallstones found sarcopenia was associated with a 3.6-fold inc…
Older adults with low muscle mass are 3.5 times more likely to develop a sudden, severe gallbladder infection than those with obesity.
Case report suggests grade 3 ICI-induced inflammatory arthritis may correlate with sustained response to tislelizumab in advanced head and neck carcinoma.
Could a painful joint flare actually signal that cancer treatment is working long-term?
This case report and literature review describes a single patient with advanced unknown primary carcinoma of the head and neck receiving mai…
A patient with advanced head and neck cancer stayed in complete remission for over a year after joint pain from treatment forced doctors to …
Proenkephalin A levels show no correlation with kidney or cardiac markers in hemodialysis patients
PENK Levels Don't Predict Kidney Function in Dialysis
A prospective cohort study of 100 adult patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing maintenance hemodialysis found no significant corr…
A popular kidney marker called PENK fails to track function in patients already on dialysis, making it useless for monitoring their health.
Color Doppler ultrasound shows 94% sensitivity for velamentous cord insertion in retrospective study
Ultrasound Now Spots a Hidden Umbilical Cord Problem With 94% Accuracy
A retrospective case-control study of 240 singleton pregnancies found second-trimester color Doppler ultrasound had 94.2% sensitivity and 10…
A targeted ultrasound scan can spot a hidden umbilical cord problem with 94% accuracy before 28 weeks, giving doctors a critical window to p…
Recalibrated SOFA 2.0 score shows stepwise mortality association in heat stroke cohort
A Better Score for Predicting Who Survives Heat Stroke
A multicenter retrospective cohort study of 292 patients with first-time heat stroke found that a recalibrated SOFA 2.0 score showed a stepw…
A new scoring system predicts who will die from heat stroke more accurately than older tools, helping doctors spot the most dangerous patien…
Platelet-rich plasma therapy in knee osteoarthritis patients showed high prediction accuracy for pain reduction.
Can a simple injection predict who gets real pain relief from knee treatment?
This retrospective cohort study evaluated 102 patients with knee osteoarthritis receiving platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy. The analysis f…
A new test can predict with over 90% accuracy which knee osteoarthritis patients will feel real pain relief from platelet-rich plasma inject…
Machine learning model predicts brain metastasis risk in breast cancer patients with high accuracy
Can surgery and early treatment lower your risk of breast cancer spreading to the brain?
A cohort study of 154,193 breast cancer patients developed an XGBoost model predicting brain metastasis risk, achieving AUCs of 0.99 in inte…
Surgery and early treatment act as powerful shields against breast cancer spreading to the brain, according to a study of over 154,000 patie…
Normal Birth Action Plan associated with reduced cesarean rates in Turkish cohort
Did a new birth plan really lower the rate of unnecessary C-sections in this Turkish hospital?
This retrospective single-centre cohort study examined 2,226 births in a private hospital in Türkiye comparing the Normal Birth Action Plan …
A new birth plan in a Turkish hospital cut unnecessary C-sections by 8% while fear-driven surgeries dropped from 26% to 17%, though total bi…
Higher preanesthetic intra-abdominal pressure linked to increased post-spinal hypotension risk in cesarean delivery
Higher abdominal pressure linked to increased risk of low blood pressure after C-section
A prospective observational study of 83 parturients undergoing elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia found that each 5-mmHg inc…
Higher abdominal pressure before anesthesia triples the risk of low blood pressure during C-sections, a link doctors are now investigating f…