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High-risk outpatients with early-onset COVID-19 who are treated with oral fluvoxamine plus inhaled budesonide have a reduced incidence of severe disease that warrants advanced care, reveals a study.

Good quality surgery conferred a progression-free survival (PFS) benefit for women with ovarian sex cord stromal tumours (SCST) in the first-line setting and on first and second relapse. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, had no impact on survival in the first-line or relapse setting.

Children born to mothers who had contracted hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection before pregnancy appear to be at increased risk of congenital heart diseases (CHDs), as reported in a study.

The incidence of major vascular complications among patients who underwent noncardiac surgery is similar between hypotension- and hypertension-avoidance strategies, reports a study.

A Singapore study has found a previously overlooked connection between bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)-derived lower phase angle and chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, mediated by matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

A study in India has shown the effectiveness of a small cash transfer in alleviating short-term functional impairment among older people who are living alone. However, cash transfers do not produce a clinically or statistically significant decrease in depression and show no impact on food security.