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Despite policy advancement and nutritional monitoring, salt iodination seems to be an insufficient measure to provide the adequate level of iodine to pregnant women, reports a recent meta-analysis.

Moderate physical activity (PA) appears to help in reducing the risk of hyperuricaemia, according to a study in a multiethnic Chinese population. In addition, decreasing sedentary time (ST) appears to be more beneficial in women than in men.

In patients with Takayasu arteritis, calculating the carotid intima-media thickness (IMT)/diameter ratio (IDR) and peak systolic velocity (PSV) may be useful in identifying neurological severe ischaemic events (SIEs), suggests a study.

For young adults with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (R/R ALL) who had failed at least two prior lines of therapies, tisagenlecleucel appears to be an inexpensive treatment option, according to a recent Singapore study.

Once-daily (QD) administration of low-dose elagolix 150 mg led to significantly reduced heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in premenopausal women with uterine fibroids, according to a study presented at ACOG 2022.

Prophylactic antibiotic works to prevent the development of urinary tract infection (UTI) following intravesical OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX) injection, with a multiple-day regimen being as effective as a single-day regimen, according to a study.