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Traditional dietary advice, gluten-free diet, and low FODMAP diet are all effective dietary approaches to reducing symptoms in patients with irritable bowel symptom (IBS), but traditional dietary advice is the pick of the bunch in terms of cost and convenience, according to a team of UK-based researchers.

Weight loss during adulthood, particularly among overweight or obese individuals, is associated with a reduction in the risk of developing distal colorectal adenomas – a precursor to colorectal cancer, whereas weight gain increased its risk, according to findings from the PLCO* Cancer Screening Trial.

Universal screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in pregnant individuals resulted in improved detection and a potential reduction in perinatal transmission, according to a study presented at CROI 2022.

In patients with gout and concurrent chronic kidney disease (CKD), the risk of mortality does not seem to increase with initiation of allopurinol, achieving target serum urate (SU) level with allopurinol, or treatment dose escalation, a study has shown.

Combining pembrolizumab with best supportive care (BSC) improved survival and response when used as second-line therapy in Asians with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

The addition of tremelimumab to durvalumab (STRIDE regimen) in the first-line setting improved overall survival (OS) compared with sorafenib in patients with advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to results of the phase III HIMALAYA trial.