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Daily intake of the oral contraceptive pill that combines estetrol (E4) and drospirenone (DRSP) appears to be highly effective across subgroups defined by age, contraceptive history, and body mass index (BMI), according to pooled data from two pivotal phase III trials.

The tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) antagonist therapies adalimumab and infliximab are more effective than vedolizumab and ustekinumab in achieving endoscopic healing (EH) at 1 year among patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease (CD), a recent study has shown.

Intravenous treatment with ketamine is as good as that with fentanyl for procedural sedation in patients undergoing first-trimester outpatient surgical abortion, as reflected in patients’ satisfaction with their anaesthesia, according to a study.

There is currently no standard and well-validated tool to predict adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in older adults, reports a recent meta-analysis.

Daily antibiotics are the current guideline-recommended standard for urinary tract infection (UTI). Interestingly, in the randomized, open-label ALTAR trial presented at EAU 2022, the urinary antiseptic methenamine hippurate was noninferior to antibiotic prophylaxis in women with recurrent UTI.

Asians with atrial fibrillation (AF) or atrial flutter (AFL) do well with dronedarone, which lowers the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular (CV) events or death from any cause to a similar extent as in non-Asian patients from the ATHENA trial, according to the results of a post hoc analysis.

The use of dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP4i) and sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) for diabetic patients admitted to hospitals yields the same efficacy and safety outcomes as insulin, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.