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Gatto L, Di Nunno V, Tosoni A et al. · 2023 · Cancers
The lack of significant improvement in the prognosis of patients with GB over the last decades highlights the need for innovative treatments aimed at fighting this malignancy and increasing survival outcomes. The results of the phase III…
View details →Sciscione AC, Booker WA, Clifton RG et al. · 2026 · Obstetrics and gynecology
Objective Activity restriction is commonly recommended in pregnancy despite lacking evidence of benefit. We sought to evaluate the amount of physical activity in patients at high risk for preterm birth and pregnancy latency and preterm…
View details →Aparajita, Barmon D, Baruah U et al. · 2025 · World journal of surgical oncology
Background Recent studies have found the presence of post- hysterectomy atypical glandular cells in upper vagina in ~ 30% patients of Endometrial Cancer (EC) with implications of causing isolated vaginal recurrence. The primary objective…
View details →Cai LY, Hoseinyazdi M, Lakhani DA et al. · 2025 · Stroke (Hoboken, N.J.)
Background Recent trials of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute distal medium vessel occlusions (DMVOs) were negative but also used inconsistent imaging-based inclusion criteria, whereas many successful large vessel occlusion (LVO)…
View details →Mol F, Scheltinga M, Roumen R et al. · 2023 · Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society
Objectives Approximately 10% of patients who undergo inguinal hernia repair or Pfannenstiel incision develop chronic (> three months) postsurgical inguinal pain (PSIP). If medication or peripheral nerve blocks fail, a neurectomy is the…
View details →Nathan SD, Lacasse V, Bell H et al. · 2024 · Pulmonary circulation
The PERFECT study, a randomized, controlled, double-blind study of inhaled treprostinil in patients with COPD and associated pulmonary hypertension (PH-COPD) was a negative trial that was terminated early. The reason(s) for the negative…
View details →Chen H, Colasurdo M, Matsukawa H et al. · 2026 · European stroke journal
Introduction Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is an effective treatment for basilar artery occlusion (BAO) stroke in select patients. While there is a growing body of literature suggesting that advanced imaging modalities such as computed…
View details →Cerbone L, Orecchia S, Bertino P et al. · 2023 · Cancers
Mesothelioma comprises a group of rare cancers arising from the mesothelium of the pleura, peritoneum, tunica vaginalis testis and pericardium. Mesothelioma is generally associated with asbestos exposure and has a dismal prognosis, with…
View details →Pellesi L, Onan D, Martelletti P · 2024 · Toxins
Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is a common and debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), often resembling migraine and tension-type headaches. Despite its prevalence, the optimal treatment for PTH remains unclear, with…
View details →Zhou Q, Gao B, Hu J et al. · 2026 · BMJ oncology
Background Many patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have tumours that are either refractory or develop resistance following an initial response to anti-programmed cell death protein (ligand)-1 (PD-(L)1)-based treatment,…
View details →Kasperkiewicz M, van Beek N, Schmidt E · 2026 · Drugs
Autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBDs) are a heterogeneous group of at least a dozen disorders characterized by autoantibodies against structural proteins of desmosomes in the skin and surface-close epithelia in pemphigus and of the…
View details →Ferguson I, George G, Wu C et al. · 2025 · Cognitive therapy and research
Background The tendency to negatively interpret ambiguous situations (i.e., interpretation bias) is associated with the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. Reliable measures of this transdiagnostic construct are critical…
View details →van der Meulen C, van de Stadt LA, Kroon FPB et al. · 2025 · Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Objective Pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA) is evaluated with repeated pain questionnaires. It is unclear whether these questionnaires adequately capture changes in pain recalled by patients. This study investigated whether changes on pain…
View details →Laviolle B, Locher C, Allain JS et al. · 2025 · Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Studies with negative results are less likely to be published than others, potentially leading to publication bias. Introduced in 2000, trial registration could have participated in decreasing the proportion of unpublished studies. We…
View details →Ter Bruggen FFJA, Redekop WK, Stronks DL et al. · 2021 · Journal of pain research
Objective The success of neurostimulation depends partly on the amount of coverage of the neurostimulation-induced paresthesia of the painful area. This is often achieved by asking feedback from patients intraoperatively. If sedation…
View details →Agostinho M, Shani A, Canaipa R et al. · 2024 · Pain reports
Introduction Within-subject variability (WSV) of pain intensity reports has been shown to predict the placebo response. The focused analgesia selection test (FAST), which allows to experimentally assess WSV of pain reports, has been used…
View details →Dijk SW, Wollny C, Barkhausen J et al. · 2025 · JAMA
Importance Given the widespread use of medical imaging, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to improve appropriateness is crucial for optimizing health care resources and patient outcomes. Objective To assess the effects of…
View details →Correll CU, Durgam S, Kozauer SG et al. · 2026 · International clinical psychopharmacology
This Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy and safety of lumateperone to treat bipolar depression. Patients (18-75 years) with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder experiencing a major depressive…
View details →Seybold U · 2018 · Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Vaccination practices in Germany are driven by scientific developments and a complex regulatory environment. Some important developments in 2018 are described here: Starting in 2018 only quadrivalent influenza vaccines will be used for the…
View details →Bremhorst A, Mills DS, Stolzlechner L et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in psychology
The inner brow raiser is a muscle movement that increases the size of the orbital cavity, leading to the appearance of so-called 'puppy dog eyes'. In domestic dogs, this expression was suggested to be enhanced by artificial selection and…
View details →Komarow HD, Wang J, Eisch R et al. · 2025 · The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global
Background Indolent systemic mastocytosis is a clonal mast cell disease that results in an increase in mast cells in the skin, bone marrow, and other organ systems. IL-6 has been shown to promote mast cell maturation, proliferation, and…
View details →Guo JY, Lin HY · 2023 · Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi
The Sepsis Coagulopathy Asahi Recombinant LE Thrombomodulin (SCARLET) trial has many defects, and thus cannot be the terminator of recombinant thrombomodulin (rTM). On the contrary, it provides sufficient evidence for further research.…
View details →de Ruiter MB, Groot PFC, Deprez S et al. · 2023 · Neuro-oncology
Background Reducing radiation dose to the hippocampus with hippocampal avoidance prophylactic cranial irradiation (HA-PCI) is proposed to prevent cognitive decline. It has, however, not been investigated whether hippocampal atrophy is…
View details →Abrams D, Montesi SB, Moore SKL et al. · 2020 · Critical care medicine
Objectives Recurring issues in clinical trial design may bias results toward the null, yielding findings inconclusive for treatment effects. This study evaluated for powering bias among high-impact critical care trials and the associated…
View details →Stockton S, Catalano P, Cohen SJ et al. · 2023 · The oncologist
Background Patients with advanced esophageal cancer carry poor prognoses; limited data exist to guide second-line therapy in the metastatic setting. Paclitaxel has been used yet is associated with limited efficacy. There is preclinical…
View details →Gandhy SU, Karzai FH, Bilusic M et al. · 2024 · European urology oncology
Background The emergence of positron emission tomography (PET) in prostate cancer is impacting clinical practice, but little is known about PET imaging as a tool to determine treatment failure in metastatic castration-resistant prostate…
View details →Gagnon J, Quansah JE, Saleh G et al. · 2022 · Psychopathology
Introduction Splitting, as a defense mechanism in Kernberg's theory, plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of polarized and oscillating representations of self/other characteristics of borderline personality disorder…
View details →Regel A, Sepriano A, Baraliakos X et al. · 2017 · RMD open
To assess the efficacy and safety of non-biological therapies in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) to inform the update of the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS)/European League Against Rheumatism…
View details →Abdelrahman KM, Hackshaw KV · 2021 · Biomedicines
Neuropathic pain affects 7-10% of the population and is often ineffectively and incompletely treated. Although the gold standard for treatment of neuropathic pain includes tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake…
View details →Witzel S, Statland JM, Steinacker P et al. · 2024 · European journal of neurology
Background and purpose Rasagiline might be disease modifying in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim was to evaluate the effect of rasagiline 2 mg/day on neurofilament light chain (NfL), a prognostic biomarker in ALS.…
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