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According to a study conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) since mid-2018, advanced imaging can identify patients with acute ischaemic stroke for intra-arterial thrombectomy even beyond 6 hours from symptom onset.

Treatment with rituximab (RTX) in patients with moderate-to-severe neuropsychiatric (NP) systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) appears to result in some improvements and to contribute to the use of a much lower steroid dose at 6 months, suggests a study presented at EULAR 2024.

People with schizophrenia may benefit from cognitive remediation which offers durable improvements in both cognition and psychosocial functioning, as shown in a study.

Researchers from Singapore found an association between type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) in a Mendelian randomization (MR) study.

Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving a reduced dose of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOAC), particularly rivaroxaban and dabigatran, show a similar incidence of ischaemic stroke and systemic embolism to those receiving warfarin, a study has shown.

High cognitive reserve appears to confer protection against dementia, even among people with genetic predisposition to dementia, according to a study.