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A high incidence of menstrual disorders among women aged ≤54 years has been noted following COVID-19 vaccination, reveals a Netherlands study. Analysis of spontaneous reports supports this observation.

In the treatment of moderate-to-severe benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Singapore, water vapor thermal therapy (WVTT) is more cost effective than medical management (MM) in the first-line setting based on the common willingness-to-pay threshold of SGD 50,000 per quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), a study has found.

Adding percent free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to total PSA results in better prediction of clinically significant prostate cancer and fatal prostate cancer in men, reports a study.

Genetic evidence confirms both the positive and negative associations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduction with certain metabolic and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), according to the results of a Mendelian randomization (MR) study in the UK Biobank.

A spatio-temporal analysis by researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong finds significant associations between high ambient particulate matter (PM)_2.5 concentration and increased rates of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) among the elderly.

In the first-line treatment of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harbouring EGFR mutation, the combination of osimertinib plus pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy outperformed osimertinib alone in terms of extending progression-free survival (PFS), according to the interim results of the phase III FLAURA2 trial presented at WCLC 2023.