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What is the future for multicancer early-detection tests?
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
Liquid biopsies based on genomic biomarkers could make MCED a reality, especially for cancers for which there is no standard screening process.
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It’s back to school for asthma, too
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
A more relaxed approach to maintenance therapy for the condition over the summer holidays and exposure to allergens at school contribute to this...
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Setmelanotide offers significant, long-lasting weight loss
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
Melanotide is being tested with respect to other mutations responsible for severe obesity, raising hopes that it will soon be indicated for use in...
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Sublingual immunotherapy stops onset and worsening of asthma
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
“The results ... are consistent with outcomes from clinical trials, suggestive of a reduced risk of asthma onset in patients with allergic...
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Smoking cessation has many benefits in diabetes
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
Diabetic patients need to be made aware of the risks of smoking, and they need to be told about the ways they’ll benefit from quitting smoking.
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Does exercise help or hinder GERD?
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
“Vigorous,” or mainly sports-related, exercise has a detrimental effect on GERD. Approximately 60% of athletes are said to report GERD symptoms...
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Are early childhood viral infections linked with asthma?
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
Globally, 28% of children infected by either rhinovirus of RSV were deemed to have asthma at 6 years of age.
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What length antibiotic course for prostatitis?
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
“Cystitis in men that does not affect the prostate is rare and should be classed as a complicated infection.”
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Introduce allergens early, say French allergists
- Author:
- Nathalie Raffier
For all newborns, regardless of whether they have a history of atopic or nonatopic dermatitis, food diversification is now recommended from 4...