Hodinový prehľad - Zdravotnícke a vedecké zaujímavosti

Súhrn: Misinformation online is becoming a “real threat to public health”, the NHS’s top doctor has warned Professor Frankie Swords, national medical director for NHS England, warned that people are seeking out health information from “unreliable” sources and are opting for “completely unproven miracle cures” over evidence-based medicine The health service needs to give “authoritative, sensible, useful advice where young people will naturally look for it,” she added.

Súhrn: One in 5 patients on the drug achieved a functional cure at week 72 after therapy discontinuation compared with zero placebo patients: in the B-Well 1 trial, 127 of 650 patients (20%) vs zero of 328 patients); in the B-Well 2 trial, 106 of 570 patients (19%) vs zero of 286 patients The common difference in risk between the treatment group and the placebo group was 17 001 for both) Cure was defined as at least 24 weeks of a sustained HBV DNA level below the lower limit of quantification and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss after fixed-duration therapy, according to international investigators led by Jinlin Hou, MD, of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, in Guangzhou, China.

Súhrn: VRANOV NAD TOPĽOU: Polícia obvinila 48-ročného muža z obzvlášť závažného zločinu vraždy v štádiu pokusu K skutku malo dôjsť v sobotu (4 ) večer v jednom z bytov vo Vranove nad Topľou.

Súhrn: TOPLINE In a case-control study, higher levels of the immune protein MMP12 were associated with an increased risk for pancreatic cancer, particularly among individuals diagnosed within 8 years of blood collection, with the strongest associations observed in those diagnosed within 4 years METHODOLOGY - Researchers conducted a nested case-control study including 406 patients with incident pancreatic cancer (median age, 57 years; 48% men) from 10 European countries who were diagnosed between 1995 and 2012, with a median follow-up duration of 8 - Patients were matched with 406 control individuals on the basis of age and sex.

Súhrn: The organization is going after cold and flu viruses first, citing the huge economic and health burden these common infections cause each year A new philanthropic effort — backed by money from some of the biggest names in AI — is taking aim at eliminating respiratory viruses, starting with the common cold and influenza Intercept is starting with $500 million in seed funding from Anthropic, OpenAI Foundation, and the payment company Stripe, along with venture capitalists at Jane Street, and from Bill Gates, through a philanthropic entity.