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Older people who are initiating blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications appear to be at heightened risk of fractures, especially those who have dementia, as shown in a retrospective cohort study.

Early oral feeding in patients with acute pancreatitis can help shorten the length of hospital stay (LOHS) and even lower the costs of medical care without increasing feeding intolerance or mortality, reports a study. In those with a severe disease, early feeding after 1 day appears beneficial.

Use of landiolol, a highly selective and short-acting beta-1 blocker, demonstrates adequate safety and efficacy in terms of heart rate control among patients suffering from atrial tachyarrhythmias (ATs) and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, suggest the results of a meta-analysis presented at EHRA 2024.

In women undergoing autologous in vitro fertilization (IVF) for fertility treatment, ovulatory suppression with medroxyprogesterone acetate proves effective, with cycle and reproductive outcomes similar to that with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist and the advantage of being cheaper, according to a study.

Oral lasofoxifene at either 0.25 or 0.5 mg daily confers benefits on genitourinary syndrome of menopause, with pooled data from two phase III trials showing significant improvements in vaginal signs or symptoms while having a favourable safety profile.

A novel “single-shot,” large-lattice pulsed field ablation (PFA) catheter that conforms to diverse left atrial and pulmonary vein anatomies is safe and efficacious for isolating pulmonary veins in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), as shown in a first-in-human trial.