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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.

Treatment coverage for major depressive disorder (MDD) remains low across the globe, especially in low- and lower middle-income countries, a study has found. However, many patients still fail to receive adequate care consistent with practice guidelines even in high-income countries.

Treatment with nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) results in lower risks of diabetes complications and mortality compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes mellitus (DM), suggest a study.

First data from Vaccine Allergy Safety (VAS) clinics in Hong Kong show that a majority of high-risk patients can receive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination safely, with no immediate allergic reactions.

In the phase II TITAN-TCC* trial presented at ASCO GU 2022, the addition of ipilimumab to nivolumab led to improved responses in patients with pretreated (second/third line) advanced/metastatic or surgically unresectable transitional cell carcinoma (TCC).

The combination of corticosteroid (CS) therapy with remdesivir (RDV) has noninferior survival outcomes relative to CS monotherapy in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), reports a recent study.

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

In individuals with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC), a first-line maintenance treatment regimen comprising a combination of avelumab and best supportive care (BSC) provided better survival benefit than BSC alone, according to long-term and subgroup analyses of the phase III JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial presented at ASCO GU 2022.