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Chemoradiotherapy improves disease control in muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and mitomycin C (MMC), when combined with radiotherapy, leads to better locoregional control over a 10-year window in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), a recent study has found.

Short-course IV antibiotics should be considered for nonbacteraemic UTI in babies
In the treatment of young infants with nonbacteraemic urinary tract infection (UTI), administering intravenous (IV) antibiotics for less than 48 hours appears to work well in the absence of meningitis, with low rates of treatment failure and serious complications, according to a study.

Oral tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide works against complicated UTI, acute pyelonephritis
Oral tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide appears to be as good as intravenous ertapenem in the treatment of patients with complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) and acute pyelonephritis, with the two having a similar safety profile, according to data from a phase III study.






