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An ultrasound (US)-guided intra-articular hip injection of corticosteroid and local anaesthetic, administered with advice and education, results in a rapid and sustained symptom response for individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA), a study has shown.

Almost 30 percent of patients who experience a cryptogenic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) go on to develop atrial fibrillation (AF), most of them asymptomatic, according to results of the NOR-FIB* study presented at EHRA 2022.

Treatment with remdesivir in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 does not appear to confer increased risks of acute kidney and liver injury, with a recent study showing that these risks are already elevated even before exposure to treatment and there is no further increase following remdesivir initiation.

Early administration (ie, within 5 days after symptom onset) of the oral, small-molecule antiviral prodrug molnupiravir slashed the risk of hospitalization or death in at-risk, unvaccinated, nonhospitalized adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, findings from the phase III component of the phase II/III MOVe-OUT trial have shown.

Patients who are on obesity-related medications before undergoing bariatric surgery may be more likely to discontinue their medications and less likely to restart them after undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) than laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), a recent study has shown.