According to the World Obesity Federation, obesity is a chronic, relapsing, progressive disease.1 This view of obesity, however, is not without controversy. Opinions range from “fat acceptance activists”, who argue that the health impact of excess body fat are exaggerated and a cover for cultural and aesthetic prejudices against people who live in large bodies, to the Health At Every Size (HAES®)…
Both boosters provided good protection against hospitalisation amongst older adults. The finding that the adjuvanted vaccine targeting the distant Beta strain had similar effectiveness to…
The addition of anlotinib to neoadjuvant chemotherapy showed manageable toxicity and encouraging antitumor activity for patients with clinical stage II/III TNBC.
Circulating testosterone concentrations within the high-normal range are independently associated with an increased risk of incident AF amongst healthy older men. This suggests that AF…
The interventions targeted diverse segments of populations and consequently yielded a multitude of stigma-related outcomes. However, despite the heterogeneity of studies, most reported positive outcomes…
CD is strongly associated with GORD but there was high heterogeneity. More convincingly, a GFD substantially improves GORD symptoms, suggesting a role for duodenal inflammation…
5-year outcomes confirm the findings of the original RAINBOW trial and a planned interim analysis at 2 years, including a reduced frequency of high myopia…
Treatment with GST-HG171 plus Ritonavir has demonstrated benefits in symptom recovery and viral clearance among low-risk vaccinated adult patients with COVID-19, without apparent safety concerns.…
Although being genetically identical, sFGR in identical twins is associated with a reduction in static and dynamic lung volume and a reduction in lung diffusion,…
This proof-of-concept study underscores the high potential of harnessing facial images and a tailored XAI approach as an easily accessible alternative over known risk factors…
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