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Collagen proportionate area (CPA) is a good predictor of long-term mortality in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) patients regardless of their abstinence from alcohol, a recent study has found. However, CPA seems to have no clear interaction with short-term mortality.

A large international database study has shown that children and adolescents with cancer have an elevated risk of severe or critical disease if infected with COVID-19. Furthermore, about half the patients receiving cancer therapy experienced modifications to their treatment regimens. 

Latent tuberculosis (TB) infection screening in Singapore, a nation with intermediate TB burden, appears to be below average among individuals who are HIV-positive, a study has revealed.

Paediatric patients with COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) may develop acute abdomen, with or without appendicitis, a study in Latin America has found.

Varenicline alone is an adequate therapy for smoking cessation in heavy-drinking smokers, but combining it with naltrexone may provide benefits in terms of drinking outcomes, particularly during the 12-week period of active medication treatment, suggests a study.

Long-term exposure to night shift work is associated with risks of atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary heart disease (CHD), a study suggests.

Clinical insomnia was reported in one-third of Hong Kong citizens during the third wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, with over 60 percent having persistent insomnia in both the second and third waves, according to a recent longitudinal follow-up study in Hong Kong.