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In the treatment of patients with early syphilis, a 5-day course of linezolid does not appear to perform as well as the standard of care benzathine penicillin G (BPG), as shown in a study.

Breast cancer survivors who are at least 50 years of age appear to do well with less frequent mammographic surveillance, with survival outcomes being no worse than with annual mammograms, according to data from the phase III Mammo-50 trial.

A recent study has shown that healthy men and women with overweight or obesity who undergo voluntary calorie restriction (CR), without a structure exercise program, attain decreases in skeletal muscle (SM) mass of approximately 2 to 2.5 kg and 1 to 1.5 kg per 10-kg weight loss, respectively.

Semaglutide is associated with a 49─73 percent lower risk of suicidal ideation vs other agents for treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), a National Institutes of Health (NIH)─funded study has shown.

For postmenopausal women with genomically defined low-risk stage I breast cancer who have been initiated on endocrine therapy immediately after breast-conserving surgery, the risk of recurrence is low despite the omission of radiation therapy, as shown in the IDEA* trial.