Diabetes patients taking SGLT2 inhibitors may exhibit false positive urine ethanol tests: NEJM Medha Baranwal9 Feb 2024 11:15 AM ISTUSA: A recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine described a patient with diabetes who was taking empagliflozin, an SGLT2...
Reduced Matsuda Index and increased HOMA-IR levels predict progression to type 1 diabetes in AAb+ relatives Medha Baranwal8 Feb 2024 10:30 AM ISTItaly: A recent study revealed an increase in progression to stages 2 and 3 of type 1 diabetes with HOMA-IR and decreases with Matsuda index in...
Genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolemia may help refine risk stratification beyond LDL-C alone: JAMA Medha Baranwal5 Feb 2024 10:15 AM ISTUSA: A recent study published in JAMA Cardiology has revealed an association between the presence of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) variants and a...
First AI-powered non-invasive device for skin cancer detection receives FDA clearance Medha Baranwal3 Feb 2024 10:15 AM ISTUSA: The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has announced clearance of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered device designed for non-invasive...
Higher CRP levels associated with increased risk of kidney stones Medha Baranwal1 Feb 2024 11:30 AM ISTChina: A recent population-based study published in BMC Nephrology revealed a significant association between higher C-reactive protein (CRP) levels...
High SCAD polygenic risk score strongly associates with familial SCAD risk Medha Baranwal30 Jan 2024 10:30 AM ISTAustralia: A study of common polygenic risk for spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) in a cohort of families and individuals with sporadic...
Liquid biopsies to detect Neuroblastoma relapse of childhood cancer early Anshika Mishra30 Jan 2024 9:15 AM ISTNeuroblastoma mainly affects toddlers and young children - in the EU region there are 1500 new cases per year. Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor of...
Elevated urinary albumin tied to sub-clinical cardiovascular disease in diabetes patients Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli26 Jan 2024 1:45 AM ISTDenmark: A recent study revealed that elevated albumin in the urine may be linked with sub-clinical coronary artery pathology, including coronary...
Blood test may detect neuroendocrine prostate cancer through targeted cell-free DNA methylation Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli15 Jan 2024 4:45 AM ISTUSA: Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Trento, Italy, have developed a blood test, described in Cancer Discovery, that...
ChatGPT has low diagnostic accuracy in pediatric cases, finds JAMA study Medha Baranwal5 Jan 2024 8:45 PM ISTUSA: A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics has shed light on the diagnostic accuracy of a large language model (LLM) in pediatric case...
Unbound bilirubin, a robust predictor of acute bilirubin encephalopathy in infants Medha Baranwal28 Dec 2023 2:00 AM ISTIndia: Findings of the association between unbound bilirubin (UB) and acute bilirubin encephalopathy (ABE) indicate that bilirubin-induced...
High-sensitivity troponin HEART pathway allows earlier detection of acute MI: JAMA Medha Baranwal27 Dec 2023 6:00 PM ISTUSA: A recent cohort study published in JAMA Network Open has suggested that the high-sensitivity troponin HEART pathway may allow earlier detection...
