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.

The 1-year results from the PRECISE Trial were presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) annual congress in Chicago on November 6th. This global, prospective, randomised trial examined a Precision Pathway versus a Traditional Testing pathway for patients with stable chest pain.

A new study in Scientific Reports suggests that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder have distinct connectivity patterns in the white matter pathways of their brain. This discovery was made after researchers used diffusion weighted MRI scans to compare brain connectivity patterns between individuals with ASD and those with developmental coordination disorder.