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  • Can diabetes cause hearing loss? A focus on auditory ossicles

    Studies have shown a link between diabetes and changes in the inner ear. A new study is now investigating whether ossicles in the middle ear also contribute to hearing loss.

  • Heart bypass surgery: Mannitol reduces the risk of postoperative delirium

    A randomized study examined the potential role of mannitol in preventing delirium during heart bypass surgery. But how much is the risk reduced?

  • The cholesterol paradigm: is less really always better?

    New data published in Frontiers of Endocrinology challenges the cholesterol paradigm of ‘less is always better’, especially for older people.

  • What value does the cosmetics industry give to women's health?

    A keratin-based hair straightening treatment led to severe acute kidney injury in young women in Israel. Why did these cases not have far-reaching consequences?

  • Suicide as an occupational hazard: high suicide rates among female doctors

    Doctors have an increased risk of suicide, with women in medicine being particularly at risk.

  • Molecular characterization of Lymphomas in pediatric patients

    Lymphomas in children, adolescents, and young adults represent a unique clinical challenge due to their distinct biological and molecular characteristics.

  • Euromelanoma 2024: advancing skin cancer prevention and public awareness initiatives

    Major advances in skin cancer prevention, early detection and public education were presented at the Euromelanoma Conference 2024.

  • Melanoma in children

    At the 2024 EADV Congress, Dr Riccardo Pampena (Milan, Italy) presented important insights into the rare but serious disease of paediatric melanoma.

  • Melanoma in pregnancy

    At the 2024 EADV Congress, Dr Gabriele Roccuzzo (Turin, Italy) presented an in-depth analysis of pregnancy-associated melanoma (PAM).

  • A gender gap in academic dermatology

    At EADV 2024, Prof. Dedee Murrell gave a lecture on the persistent gender gap and the challenges for women in academic dermatology.

  • Mistletoe extract: improved survival in pancreatic cancer?

    Pancreatic carcinoma is a tumour type associated with poor overall survival, and few treatment options. But could mistletoe extract have positive effects?

  • Vitiligo: treatment and AI monitoring

    There are several treatments for vitiligo. How to best measure individual success of a therapy? Which new active ingredients are available?

  • Tattoo inks often contain harmful chemicals

    According to a recent analysis, common tattoo inks contain unlisted additives that pose health risks in 83 per cent of cases.

  • Can aspirin prevent cancer?

    Long-term daily aspirin intake may help prevent colorectal cancer development and progression but the mechanisms involved are still unclear.

  • COPD: Prediction model identifies smokers at high risk

    A research team developed a risk calculator for former and current smokers to predict chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk later in life.

  • Instead of the next cigarette...try exercise

    Short exercise sessions can improve the well-being of temporarily abstinent smokers and reduce cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

  • Reflux in infants does not usually require treatment

    Gastro-oesophageal reflux and regurgitation often cause parental concern, but only few babies have a pathology that requires treatment.

  • Glomerulonephritis: vitamin B2 derivatives alleviate disease course

    Most of these kidney inflammations show a chronic progressive course and can result in terminal renal insufficiency. But scientists improved renal chronic inflammatory processes.

  • Prediabetes: Impaired fasting glucose increases the risk of gastrointestinal carcinomas

    It doesn't have to be manifest diabetes. Even slightly elevated glucose levels over several years are enough to increase the risk of gastrointestinal cancer. This is the result of a population study from South Korea.

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