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Pregnant women living with HIV are more likely to achieve viral suppression when treated with dual-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) in combination with integrase (INSTI) inhibitors compared to protease (PI) inhibitors at delivery, suggests a recent study presented at the 43rd Annual Pregnancy Meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM 2023).

Discontinuing oxytocin during the active stage of labour appears safe, according to the STOPOXY trial presented at SMFM 2023.

A dietary pattern consisting of preserved vegetables, pickled vegetables, and salted meat appears to increase the risk of mortality among patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), reveals a recent study. In contrast, fish and shrimp intake may offer a protective benefit.

The combination of alcohol-targeted pharmacotherapies and trauma-focused behavioural therapies results in early and sustained improvements in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder, suggest the results of a recent study.

Nightly use of 0.05% atropine eye drops among children appears to lead to a significantly lower incidence of near-sightedness, as shown in the results of the LAMP2 study from Hong Kong.