Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Increasingly Use Prescription Drugs Before Diagnosis: Study

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Increasingly Use Prescription Drugs Before Diagnosis: Study

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Seong-gan = Research has shown that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) increasingly use a variety of prescription drugs in the 10 years before diagnosis. Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic, incurable intestinal disease that causes multiple ulcers, bleeding, diarrhea, and abdominal pain in the intestinal mucosa when the … Read more

Large-scale Analysis Finds GLP-1 Agents Do Not Increase Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: New Study

Large-scale Analysis Finds GLP-1 Agents Do Not Increase Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: New Study

Concerns have been raised that the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) may increase the incidence of pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer, but a large-scale cohort analysis found that this was unfounded. The results of a study on the risk association of pancreatic cancer with the use of GLP-1 agents conducted by Dr. Rachel Dankner … Read more

Antwerp resident Seppe Smits stops snowboarding: “Now I say goodbye in a beautiful way” (Malle)

Antwerp resident Seppe Smits stops snowboarding: “Now I say goodbye in a beautiful way” (Malle)

With two world titles, Seppe Smits (32) is by far the most successful Belgian snowboarder of all time. And even though there has been a voice here and there in recent years that the Kempen resident was thinking about quitting, he seemed to keep going. Until late Tuesday evening the message arrived: Seppe Smits will … Read more

How many residents are there in Saudi Arabia and what are the most nationalities there?

How many residents are there in Saudi Arabia and what are the most nationalities there?

The number of residents working in the private sector in the Kingdom reached 8,568,057 residents, while the total number of foreign residents in Saudi Arabia exceeds 13.4 million people during the year 2023. The Bangladeshi nationality has the largest number of residents in the Kingdom, followed by the Indian and Pakistani communities, which are non-Arab … Read more

School teacher accused of beating a student in Zhezkazgan

School teacher accused of beating a student in Zhezkazgan

A resident of Zhezkazgan accused a school teacher of beating her son. After the injury, she said, the child developed hydrocephalus, Tengrinews.kz correspondent reports. The son of a Karaganda woman studies in the ninth grade at one of the schools in Zhezkazgan. On October 16, the student’s mother learned that the geography teacher had beaten … Read more

New compensation of 150 thousand tenge is “promised” to Kazakhstanis

New compensation of 150 thousand tenge is “promised” to Kazakhstanis

A video appeared on social networks about the “new resolution on payments”, according to which every resident of Kazakhstan is supposedly entitled to compensation of 150 thousand tenge. This message is fake, stopfake.kz reports In the caption to the video, users are asked to follow a link that leads to the website of the OKC … Read more

First clinical trial comparing implantable defibrillator + drug vs. drug alone

First clinical trial comparing implantable defibrillator + drug vs. drug alone

A clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implants versus medications in myocardial infarction survivors with heart failure has enrolled the first patient. The PROFID EHRA clinical trial began with the goal of recruiting 3,595 patients in 13 countries. Interest in this clinical trial is focused on the fact that it has been … Read more

Apixaban is better than aspirin in preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Apixaban is better than aspirin in preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

A study showed that apixaban is more effective than aspirin for preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. The results of a clinical trial on apixaban for the prevention of stroke in patients with asymptomatic atrial fibrillation, conducted by researchers including Jeff S. Healy of the Population Health Research Center at McMaster University in Canada, … Read more

The Importance of Hyperacute Treatment for Stroke Prognosis on World Stroke Day

The Importance of Hyperacute Treatment for Stroke Prognosis on World Stroke Day

In celebration of World Stroke Day on October 29, the Korean Stroke Association (Chairman Eung-gyu Kim, Inje University College of Medicine, and Chairman Hee-jun Bae, Seoul National University College of Medicine) emphasized that receiving hyperacute treatment as quickly as possible within the golden time is directly related to stroke prognosis. Every year, October 29th is … Read more

Brussels Manhunt After New Terrorist Attack: Two Deaths and One Injury

Brussels Manhunt After New Terrorist Attack: Two Deaths and One Injury

There is a manhunt in Brussels after a new terrorist attack which hit the heart of the European capital causing at least two deaths and one injury. The two people were killed with Kalashnikov shots in the late afternoon in a square (Place Sainctelette) in the central area, near the canal that crosses the city … Read more