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Medication safety
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Getting the steroid as an injection rather than a tablet halved the odds of still taking it a year later
Steroids are meant to be a bridge in early rheumatoid arthritis, and for many people they become permanent. Across 2,222 newly diagnosed patients, how the drug was given predicted whether they got off it.
Aug 31, 2026
Stroke patients who hit the cholesterol target but had not halved it still had 12% more repeat events
Stroke guidelines set an absolute cholesterol target and stop there. A Neurology analysis of 89,414 Korean patients found the size of the fall from baseline mattered independently, and only about 30% achieved a 50% reduction.
Aug 30, 2026
A diabetes drug tracked a third fewer deaths in over-75s, alongside a stroke signal nobody can explain
Trials of SGLT2 inhibitors barely recruited the very old. A Japanese target trial emulation of 8,486 people aged 75 and over found lower death and dialysis rates than a rival drug class, and more strokes.
Aug 30, 2026
A phone app lifted tuberculosis cure rates from 74% to 82% in a randomized trial
Tuberculosis treatment runs for months and people stop taking it. A BMJ trial of 525 patients in a low-resource setting found an interactive digital adherence tool raised treatment success by 7 percentage points and cut dropout by a third.
Aug 28, 2026