Low vitamin D and delirium

Delirium is a common, unpleasant and dangerous complication see amongst older people during hospital stays. A recent prospective cohort analysis has sought to assess the possible relationship between delirium and vitamin D deficiency. Adults aged 60 and older by the...

World Anti-Doping Authority 2021

The stated purposes of the World Anti-Doping Code are to protect the athletes’ right to participate in doping-free sport (promoting health, fairness and equality for athletes worldwide, to ensure harmonized & effective anti-doping programs for prevention of...

SGLT-2 inhibitors and risk for diabetic ketoacidosis

A team of researchers from Canada have conducted a population based cohort study to asses whether sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors increase the risk for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) for patients with type 2 diabetes, compared with dipeptidyl...

Olanzapine oedema

The development of oedema after the introduction of some psychotropic drugs has been previously reported with a range of agents. One drug that has been implicated is the second generation antipsychotic agent, olanzapine. A recently published case report has described...