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Continuous feeding appears to be more effective than intermittent feeding in reducing the rate of mortality in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), reveals a study.

Women with a history of pre-eclampsia are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy, according to a study.

Viral suppression is maintained through 48 weeks in adults with HIV-1 harbouring drug resistance mutations, who switched to bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) fixed-dose combination pill from a boosted protease inhibitor (bPI) therapy, according to recent data from the phase IV open-label PIBIK trial.

Adopting a liberal blood transfusion strategy in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and anaemia does not appear to do much in terms of reducing the risk of AMI recurrence or death compared with a restrictive transfusion strategy, although there appears to be a hint of benefit, as shown in the results of the phase III MINT trial.

The respiratory system is the main target of human rhinovirus/enterovirus (HRV/EV) infections, which show a clinical course with low mortality rates, reveals a study.

Long-term monthly treatment with givosiran has good tolerability and offers continuous improvements to patients with acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), results of the phase III ENVISION trial have shown.

Biomarkers of omega 6 (n‒6) fatty acids, including linoleic acid (LA) and arachidonic acid (AA), show no significant relationship with incident atrial fibrillation (AF), a study has found.