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A global report shows uneven progress toward WHO hepatitis elimination goals, highlighting persistent policy and implementation gaps in testing and treatment.

Importantly, baseline gut microbiome profiles predicted changes in glycohaemoglobin among users of both therapies.

Spending more time outdoors was linked to higher testosterone levels and lower odds of low testosterone in adult men, independent of lifestyle and metabolic factors.

Patients who responded to treatment showed increased Beta2 power, enhanced high-frequency functional connectivity, and dominant engagement of frontal brain networks.

Dasatinib plus blinatumomab demonstrated greater and sustained immune activation than ponatinib combinations in Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, with marked effects on lymphocytes and natural killer cells.

New real-world data suggest early lactate clearance can predict massive transfusion needs in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, improving early risk stratification when combined with the Glasgow-Blatchford score.

Babies rapidly share gut microbes at nursery, with peer contact shaping the infant microbiome as strongly as family by the first year of life.

Updated guidance supports HPV self-sampling as an effective way to increase cervical cancer screening uptake among under-screened women.