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Can a Baby’s First Stool Predict the Risk of Developing Allergies?

This predicted, with a high degree (76%) of accuracy and more reliably than ever before, whether an infant would develop allergies by 1 year of age…

COVID-19 Vaccination in Individuals with High-Risk Allergy Histories

However, severe allergic reactions created a potential barrier to large-scale vaccination rollout. For this reason, academics at Massachusetts General…

Oxy-hydrogen Gas: The Rationale Behind Its Use as a Novel and Sustainable Treatment for COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Diseases

During both acute and chronic respiratory conditions, including severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, the primary physiological response is to synthesise distress proteins, which include cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors…

Detect and Document: Early and Accurate Identification of Wheeze Can Improve Quality of Life in Children With Asthma

Detect and Document: Early and Accurate Identification of Wheeze Can Improve Quality of Life in Children With Asthma

While not every wheeze is asthma, no wheeze is normal. Detecting and documenting the breathing sound accurately and objectively, then, is an…

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Reimagining Treatment of HR+, HER2- Early Breast Cancer

Dr Prat explained that there are three main variables that should be considered when determining the risk of recurrence for…

Prominent Cutaneous Manifestation of COVID-19: A Case Report

The new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen and the subsequent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mainly affect the lung…

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A Successful Treatment of Chronic Migraine with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Migraines involve intense head pain, which severely affects the activities of daily living, and is the is the third most common disease in the world…

Virtual GI Cancer Masterclass: GI Cancer Patient Outcomes

Chaired by Prof Alberto Sobrero, we hear from Vassiliki Fotaki and Zorana Maravic from Digestive Cancer Europe (DiCE) as well as GI oncologist, Prof Eric Van Cutsem.

Rifampicin-Induced Thrombocytopenia

Thrombocytopenia is generally defined as a platelet count below the lower normal limit, <150×109/L, although many suggest that a cut-off value…

Fully Automated Segmentation of Neuroblastic Tumours on Multisequence MRI Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Volumetric segmentation of intrinsically heterogeneous abdominal tumours is essential for the diagnosis, follow-up, and treatment response evaluation…