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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) is associated with an average of 2 years of life lost, with life expectancy progressively decreasing with increasing disease severity, as reported in a study.

High-dose vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy is associated with better cognitive function in offspring at 10 years of age, particularly visual and verbal memory and cognitive flexibility, according to a post hoc analysis of the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood 2010.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study from Thailand reports a significant reduction in the incidence of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) among patients with gynaecological cancers treated with neurotoxic chemotherapy who received vitamin B12 supplementation vs placebo.

Pregnant and postpartum adolescents represent a distinct group with markedly elevated risk of psychiatric morbidity and associated adverse outcomes, as shown in a retrospective study.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructor has shown promise for enhancing bystander emergency response in a proof-of-concept study, outperforming human dispatchers in delivering guideline-concordant CPR instruction.

Treatment with paediatric dolutegravir-containing antiretroviral therapy (ART) results in robust virologic response among children living with HIV (CLHIV), reports a Cameroon study.

Treatment with a single-pill low-dose combination (LDC) of amlodipine, losartan, and chlorthalidone (ALC) results in similar reductions in blood pressure (BP) to those with standard-dose amlodipine monotherapy and greater BP decrease than losartan monotherapy over 8 weeks among patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension, reveals a study.