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A single intranasal dose of the psychedelic mebufotenin benzoate helps improve symptoms in adults with treatment-resistant depression, with the benefit emerging as early as day 1 after dosing and persisting for 8 weeks, according to a phase IIb trial said to be the largest clinical evaluation to date of mebufotenin administered as a nose spray.

Treatment with antibiotics appears to increase the risk of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) development, particularly following a gastrointestinal (GI) infection, suggests a study.

Treatment with risankizumab results in fast and sustained favourable clinical, endoscopic, and radiologic outcomes in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), a real-world study has shown.

Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) among adults with weight regain after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) results in greater weight loss without compromising safety, according to a study.

Respiratory infections in early childhood are a risk factor for atopic dermatitis (AD), and the higher the number of infections, the greater the risk, as shown in a study.

More than one in five colorectal cancer (CRC) cases globally could be related to exposure to Helicobacter pylori, with China having the largest absolute number of CRC cases potentially linked to the bacterium, an international collaborative study led by investigators from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has found.

Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have resolved a long-standing debate in neuroscience on the neural origin of complex muscle coordination for voluntary movements. Their recent finding that the brain organizes individual muscles into functional "building blocks" (muscle synergies) to coordinate multiple muscle groups simultaneously, rather than by directing each muscle individually, offers transformative insights for paralysis rehabilitation and design of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) in future