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Prophylactic antibiotic works to prevent the development of urinary tract infection (UTI) following intravesical OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX) injection, with a multiple-day regimen being as effective as a single-day regimen, according to a study.

Having a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine (ie, second booster dose) substantially protects against severe illness in face of the Omicron variant, compared with only three doses of vaccine that were given more than 4 months earlier, according to data from the Israeli Ministry of Health database.

Probiotics with the EVC001 strain of the Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis, as a supplement to human milk, appears to significantly reduce the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and associated deaths in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, a recent study has found.

The Q-Pad, a modified sanitary pad that passively collects menstrual blood, facilitates the self-collection of dried blood spot samples that can match clinician-collected cervical specimens (CCS) for the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV), reports a new study presented at the 2022 Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG 2022).