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Varenicline alone is an adequate therapy for smoking cessation in heavy-drinking smokers, but combining it with naltrexone may provide benefits in terms of drinking outcomes, particularly during the 12-week period of active medication treatment, suggests a study.

Treatment with azathioprine helps prevent relapse of autoimmune pancreatitis, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

A community-based study from the UK showed that the rate of systemic side effects is relatively low following vaccination with the BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 COVID-19 vaccines.

In individuals with dementia-related psychosis (DRP) who had a response to the oral 5-HT2A* inverse agonist and antagonist pimavanserin, an atypical antipsychotic agent, the risk of relapse was lower among those who continued the drug vs those who stopped it, the phase III HARMONY trial suggests.