Hospitalisation for status epilepticus seizures rose from 2010 to 2019, disproportionately affecting Black patients, U.S. inpatient data showed. The overall prevalence of status epilepticus hospitalisations more than doubled in that period, reported Gabriela Tantillo, MD, MPH, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Though studies evaluating the effects of posture on the absorption of drugs have been conducted, a systematised review revealed critical gaps in methodology.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many radiologists discovered hospital-based reading environments could be downright inhospitable to productivity goals as well as lifestyle preferences. More than a few found they could read up to twice as many exams and ably enough manage domestic duties working from home.

A sublingual film may be able to deliver epinephrine as effectively as intramuscular injections and provide an alternate pathway for urgent treatment of allergic anaphylaxis.

The future medical promise of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing appears to be a present-day reality for a small group of patients with the rare genetic condition known as hereditary angioedema (HAE).

Efforts to screen for ascending aortic enlargement in the general population may be improved using a new prediction model based on common clinical variables easily gathered from medical records, researchers found.

Phase III studies of investigational gantenerumab did not meet their primary endpoints of slowing clinical decline in early Alzheimer’s disease, the Roche Group said. Beta-amyloid removal also was lower than expected with the drug.

The osteoporosis drug denosumab (Prolia) not only stopped structural progression in patients with erosive osteoarthritis of the hand, but showed signs of reversing the damage, according to findings from a small trial.

Epicutaneous immunotherapy administered through a patch applied to the skin led to better responses compared with placebo for peanut allergies in toddlers, the phase III randomised EPITOPE study showed.

Emphysema and airway inflammation were more common among marijuana smokers compared with tobacco-only smokers, according to a small retrospective case-control study.