Endovascular therapy is now a standard treatment for select patients with severe ischemic stroke to improve the likelihood of functional recovery; yet there remains a paucity of research on outcomes by sex and gender.The American Heart Association in June published a scientific statement on sex- and gender-related differences in endovascular stroke treatment in Stroke. The statement
Despite higher pain scores at 8 hours postoperatively and increased opioid use, local infiltration analgesia was less costly and yielded similar pain scores at 24 hours after shoulder arthroplasty compared with an interscalene block.In a level-1, prospective randomized trial, Michael Ewing, MD, and colleagues from the University of Missouri compared outcomes between 37 patients who underwent
The FDA granted priority review to mosunetuzumab for treatment of certain patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.The designation applies to use of the agent by adults who received at least two prior systemic therapies.
Individuals aged 65 years and older with a history of hypothyroidism were associated with an 81% increased risk for dementia, researchers reported in Neurology.
“In some cases, thyroid disorders have been associated with dementia symptoms that can be reversible with treatment,” Chien-Hsiang Weng, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School
Drugs that target the noradrenergic system may improve cognition and apathy in patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer’s disease but have little effect on attention or episodic memory, researchers reported. Michael C. B. David, MBBS, a research fellow and PhD candidate at Imperial College London, and colleagues aimed to assess the efficacy of drugs with