Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Turkey using drug from China for coronavirus
Turkey's health minister said Monday that the country is using a drug sent from China on patients suffering from the novel coronavirus.
Mar 23, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Adding cetuximab to chemotherapy enables patients with advanced colorectal cancer, liver metastasis to undergo surgery
New results from a clinical trial conducted in Shanghai, China, indicate that adding cetuximab (Erbitux) to standard chemotherapy enables some patients with otherwise inoperable liver metastases due to colorectal cancer have ...
Apr 8, 2013
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Cardiology
Text messages show promise as next step for improving heart health in China
Motivational text messages are a well-liked, feasible new way to provide additional support to Chinese patients with heart disease, reports a preliminary study by researchers at Yale and in China. However, the study did not ...
Apr 8, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Ovarian cancer risk reduced by prolonged lactation
Curtin University researchers have found that women who breastfeed their babies have significantly reduced rates of ovarian cancer in a study that extends what was known about the beneficial effects of breastfeeding on mothers.
Feb 1, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
2 mg/kg/day azathioprine best for Crohn's in Chinese patients
(HealthDay)—For Chinese patients with Crohn's disease (CD), 2 mg/kg/day azathioprine (AZA) seems more effective than 1 mg/kg/day, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in the Journal of Digestive Diseases.
Oct 4, 2016
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Cardiology
Stroke patient records help evaluate need for Integrative Medicine
Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital has enlisted two University of Sydney information technologies researchers to examine why post-stroke patients are drawn to integrative medicine - a combination of western and Chinese ...
May 28, 2014
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Cardiology
Sex differences in quality of life and clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure
Heart failure is generally associated with poor quality of life. Limited data are available that characterize health-related quality of life (HRQL) in Chinese patients with heart failure.
Aug 3, 2023
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Medications
Chinese company may help ease U.S. shortage of cancer drug
With the United States facing a high number of drug shortages, a Chinese company may help to boost the supply of one in particular, the chemotherapy agent cisplatin.
Jun 5, 2023
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Health
Chinese parents-to-be seek more fertile ground abroad
The easing of China's one-child policy was a godsend to Zhang Yinzhe and his wife Xu Mengsha, who had decided they wanted to use in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to freeze an embryo in the hope of one day having a second child.
Jun 19, 2018
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Health informatics
Big data to help predict individual trauma patient outcome
Chinese researchers are using big data to help identify trauma patients who could experience potential adverse health events in the emergency department through the aid of a clinical decision support system. It was developed ...
Apr 30, 2020
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