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A study from the University of California reports a 226 percent statistically significant improvement in verbal learning and memory in older adults with normal cognition using nighttime olfactory enrichment.

In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) who experience ischaemic stroke (IS) while on a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC), continuing treatment with the same DOAC is more effective at preventing recurrent IS than switching to a different DOAC or warfarin, a Hong Kong population-based retrospective cohort study has shown.

Among treatment-naïve patients with HIV-1* infection, initial treatment combination with doravirine and islatravir (DOR/ISL) was noninferior in achieving virologic suppression (HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/mL) at week 48 compared with bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF), according to a trial presented at IAS 2023.

Nightly administration of atropine 0.01% eye drops does little to slow myopia progression or axial elongation in a cohort of school-aged children in the US who have low-to-moderate myopia, as shown in a study.

Older adults with prevalent coronary heart disease (CHD) who sustain an osteoporotic hip fracture have a very high risk of immediate death, as well as increased long-term risk, according to a study.

Greater consumption of fruits and vegetables appears protective against pre-eclampsia, suggests a study. On the other hand, higher dietary vitamin C and carotenoid intake does not seem to have any effect.