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Certain commercial wireless earphones used with smartphones compare favourably with conventional hearing aids and thus have the potential to be repurposed as assistive listening devices in individuals with mild-to-moderate hearing impairment, as reported in a study from Taiwan.

Follow-up monitoring of the carotid artery with contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) identifies response or relapse in most patients with Takayasu arteritis (TAK), reports a study.

Risk stratification for myocardial infarction and death in patients with suspected obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) may be improved by the addition of coronary artery calcium score (CACS) to classical risk factors in simple clinical likelihood (CL) models compared with the basic pretest probability (PTP) model, suggests a recent study.

In patients with paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS), the time to disease resolution is longer in those with more severe disease, according to a Singapore study.

Among outpatients with clinically stable cirrhosis, higher levels of plasma ammonia appear to increase the risk of mortality and liver-related complications leading to hospitalization, a recent study has found.

The novel antiviral letermovir is as good as the current standard of care valganciclovir in preventing cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in post-kidney transplant patients, but with less toxicity, according to a phase III trial presented at IDWeek 2022.

Among children with penetrating keratoplasty, using oral tacrolimus for postoperative immunosuppression is safe, with encouraging rates of rejection-free survival and overall graft survival, a recent study has found.