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Intravenous treatment with ketamine is as good as that with fentanyl for procedural sedation in patients undergoing first-trimester outpatient surgical abortion, as reflected in patients’ satisfaction with their anaesthesia, according to a study.

There is currently no standard and well-validated tool to predict adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in older adults, reports a recent meta-analysis.

Female smokers with early natural menopause are at high risk of developing malignant and nonmalignant lung diseases, as well as of death, as reported in a study.

Daily antibiotics are the current guideline-recommended standard for urinary tract infection (UTI). Interestingly, in the randomized, open-label ALTAR trial presented at EAU 2022, the urinary antiseptic methenamine hippurate was noninferior to antibiotic prophylaxis in women with recurrent UTI.

Both the prevalence and incidence of anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection are higher among men who are current smokers than among their peers who have never smoked, according to data from the multinational HPV Infection in Men (HIM) study.

Asians with atrial fibrillation (AF) or atrial flutter (AFL) do well with dronedarone, which lowers the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular (CV) events or death from any cause to a similar extent as in non-Asian patients from the ATHENA trial, according to the results of a post hoc analysis.

An inverse, independent, and graded association exists between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and mortality risk across the spectra of age, sex, and race, a recent study has found. In addition, there is no risk increase seen among extremely fit individuals.