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In the treatment of young infants with nonbacteraemic urinary tract infection (UTI), administering intravenous (IV) antibiotics for less than 48 hours appears to work well in the absence of meningitis, with low rates of treatment failure and serious complications, according to a study.

Combination therapy with relugolix (once daily relugolix 40 mg, estradiol 1 mg, norethindrone acetate 0.5 mg) leads to improvement in heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and in other uterine fibroid (UF)-related symptoms independent of the location of the largest fibroid, results of a recent study have shown.

Use of beta-blockers results in a lower risk of all-cause mortality, but not of heart failure (HF) readmission, in older patients with HR with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), reports a recent study. Results are similar between patients admitted and not admitted from nursing homes.

Acceptance rates of COVID-19 vaccines have remained unchanged among unvaccinated pregnant women following national recommendations, with nearly one-third of patients seeing the vaccine as something harmful to their pregnancy, according to a study.

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) testing appears to improve statin adherence and management in patients with a history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), suggests a recent study.

Oral tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide appears to be as good as intravenous ertapenem in the treatment of patients with complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) and acute pyelonephritis, with the two having a similar safety profile, according to data from a phase III study.

Use of aspirin in the long term appears to markedly reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), a study has shown.