Archive: 18/12/2017
Early diagnosis can save babies' lives: A guide to severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID)
A new review provides guidance on a deadly, but rare, disease that is potentially curable if identified early. Severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID), known as the "bubble boy disease" in the 1970s, is treatable ...
Dec 18, 2017
What factors affect quality of life in older patients with cancer?
A new study provides insights on the factors that affect health-related quality of life in older adults with cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings support ...
Dec 18, 2017
Risk of 'dirty' turkey after Brexit if UK strikes a US trade deal
Consumers could be eating "dirty" chlorinated turkey at Christmas if the UK agrees a post-Brexit trade deal with the USA, according to a new briefing paper by leading food policy experts.
Dec 18, 2017
New RCT shows no benefit from probiotics, xylitol chewing gum in alleviating sore throats
The use of probiotics and xylitol chewing gum to alleviate sore throat symptoms—as an alternative to antibiotics—appears to have no effect, according to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) published in CMAJ (Canadian ...
Dec 18, 2017
Researchers find racial disparities in intensity of care at the end of life
African Americans at the end of life have significantly higher rates of hospital admission, emergency department (ED) visits, and discontinuing (also known as disenrolling from) hospice care than whites, according to a new ...
Dec 18, 2017