University Of Calgary

Midodrine, when administered in tandem with guidance on lifestyle risk reduction, lowered the recurrence of vasovagal syncope among patients who experienced fainting spells, data show.

The oncology drug setting has changed monumentally in recent years, with an unprecedented increase in new therapeutic agents. This surge in drug development is reflected by a 70% increase in clinical trials for new cancer drugs.

Methodological problems and high risk for bias prevented a consistent estimate of the comparative performance of certain psychotherapeutic modalities for youth self-harm and suicidality, according to study results.

Postoperative systemic or radiation therapy did not extend survival for women with high-risk stage I endometrial cancer, according to results presented at the virtual Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.

Intermittent theta burst stimulation was not efficacious for treating bipolar depression, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

Compared with rigid fixation, flexible fixation after syndesmotic injury better restored physiologic motion and reduced rates of syndesmotic malreduction, according to recently presented results.

A cohort of pregnant women in Canada who were overtreated for hypothyroidism with levothyroxine were more likely to have a preterm delivery than women with normal thyroid-stimulating hormone, according to a study published in Thyroid.