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Patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in the indeterminate phase are predisposed to advanced liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), as shown by a systematic review and meta-analysis.

A suite of deep learning (DL) models to automate tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment from lung ultrasound (LUS) images fulfils the WHO criteria for a sputum-free TB triage test and outwits human experts in the TrUST study.

Tapering the dose of vancomycin over 2 weeks following initial 14-day therapy appears to work better than the 14-day fixed dosing at reducing the recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), as shown in the TAPER-V trial.

Placing awake COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure (AHRF) in a prone position is an efficacious intervention in terms of both reducing mortality and preventing intubation, according to an individual participant data meta-analysis.

Antibiotic treatment may be done for 5 days, as opposed to at least 7 days, in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who had achieved clinical stability by day 3 to 5, suggests a study presented at ESCMID Global 2025.