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Altered measures of the coagulation parameters, specifically high international normalised ratio and low haemoglobin, in the third trimester of pregnancy among women with severe anaemia appear to contribute to an increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage, a study has found.

Neither gastric cancer nor gastric dysplasia is seen in patients with corpus atrophic gastritis (CAG) characterized at baseline with corpus pseudopyloric metaplasia (PPM) without corpus intestinal metaplasia (IM) because such lesions are consistently associated with corpus IM, reports a study.

The antimigraine medications dihydroergotamine (DHE) and triptan seem to aggravate the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as premature birth and spontaneous abortion (SA), a recent study has found.

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) appear to be beneficial to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, with a recent study suggesting that the use of such drugs may slow down progression of emphysema and lung function decline.

Survival benefit in patients with de novo stage IV nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) depends on the type of treatment received, with significantly better median overall survival (OS) seen with the use of small-molecule targeted therapy against epidermal growth factor receptor mutations and anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangements than with best supportive care, reports a study.