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In the treatment of patients with aspiration pneumonia, ampicillin–sulbactam helps reduce in-hospital mortality and prevent Clostridioides difficile infection compared with cephalosporins, according to a study from Japan.
Women exposed to clomiphene citrate (CC) have fourfold greater odds of becoming pregnant with multiples, and this seems to come with adverse perinatal outcomes, as shown in a French cohort study.
Nighttime snacking during pregnancy appears to increase the likelihood of postpartum depression, suggests a recent study.
A simple machine-learning model demonstrates its capacity to stratify the risk for postpartum depression (PPD) before discharge following an individual’s delivery, reports a study.
Obesity shows a significant relationship with several indices of asymptomatic cardiac remodelling and vascular atherosclerosis, according to a study. Moreover, this association is mediated by systolic blood pressure (BP).
For adult patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who are naïve to insulin, a once-weekly fixed-dose efsitora regimen is noninferior to once-daily glargine at reducing blood glucose levels, according to the phase III treat-to-target QWINT-1 trial.
For individuals with long COVID, treatment with nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir does not appear to yield improvements in health outcomes when compared with ritonavir alone, according to a phase II study.
Two large prospective cohorts show no evidence of an association between the use of oral contraceptives and the risk of liver cancer.
Survivors of COVID-19 remain at risk of long-term cardiovascular events, including elevated blood pressure (BP) and endothelial dysfunction, reveals a study.
Treatment with 0.04% atropine appears to improve myopia control in children and teens compared with 0.01% atropine or orthokeratology, despite a higher incidence of photophobia, according to a study.
