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The experimental drug ecopipam helps minimize motor and phonic tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome, in addition to being safe and well tolerated, according to the results of a phase 2b trial presented at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology’s Annual Meeting (AAN 2022).

Exercise contributes to an abnormal risk in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), but is not affected by metoprolol, in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), results of a study have shown.

Treatment with ofatumumab in the long term (approximately 3.5 years) among patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) is well-tolerated, with no new safety risks found, according to the results of ALITHIOS, presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.

Treatment with the combination of ramucirumab and paclitaxel in the second-line setting appears to yield higher responses among patients with HER2-positive gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma than among those with HER2-negative disease, according to a subgroup analysis of a nationwide, real-world study in Korea (KCSG-ST19-16).

Use of low-dose aspirin appears to have a null effect on the 5-year survival of patients who undergo gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma, a study reports.

In the treatment of ischemic symptoms associated with peripheral arterial disease, the use of once-daily SID142 appears to be as good as twice-daily Renexin while having a favourable safety profile, as shown in a phase III study.