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For patients with a history of cancer, exercising appears to lower the risk of contracting COVID-19 infection, according to a study.

Acceptance rates of COVID-19 vaccines have remained unchanged among unvaccinated pregnant women following national recommendations, with nearly one-third of patients seeing the vaccine as something harmful to their pregnancy, according to a study.

Oral tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide appears to be as good as intravenous ertapenem in the treatment of patients with complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) and acute pyelonephritis, with the two having a similar safety profile, according to data from a phase III study.

Use of aspirin in the long term appears to markedly reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), a study has shown.

Several studies presented at AAN 2022 have revealed a lack of association between COVID-19 vaccination and negative cerebrovascular outcomes.

In solid organ transplant recipients with moderate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection, early administration of a 3-day remdesivir course appears to effectively prevent COVID-19-related hospitalization as well as the clinical worsening of those who are hospitalized, according to a study.

While mothers largely feel uncertain about the safety of breastfeeding during COVID-19, the pandemic did not seem to significantly discourage the practice, according to a study presented at the 2022 Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG 2022).