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Pregnant women who remain unvaccinated from COVID-19 are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 when compared with unvaccinated nonpregnant women, as reported in a study for the Philippines.

Telecarers are beneficial in the monitoring of older hip fracture patients who are undergoing osteoporosis treatment, suggests a Singapore study. However, patient or family rejection and physician failure to prescribe persist as limitations of treatment.

Ventricular tachycardia predicts all-cause death and non-sudden cardiovascular death (NSCVD) in patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy, a study suggests.

For cancer patients with depression, treatment with a single dose of psilocybin appears to yield rapid and meaningful improvements in depressive symptoms, as shown in a phase II study.

Patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely to develop ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) within 6 months following discharge compared with matched controls without severe infection in a Swedish case-control study presented at EHRA 2023.