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Patients who are on long-term statin therapy may have a reduced risk of severe COVID-19–related outcomes including mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and requirement for mechanical ventilation, according to a study presented at Anesthesiology 2022.

Coinfection of tuberculosis (TB) among people with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) aggravates the risk of death, a recent study has found.

Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) who have extrapulmonary manifestations of a telomere syndrome show a decreased survival, according to a recent study.

Adding nivolumab to paclitaxel-carboplatin chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting boosted progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with resectable stage IIIA–B non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to results of the phase II NADIM II trial from Spain.

Among individuals carrying the 17q12-21 asthma-risk variant rs2305480, owning a dog appears to exert a protective effect against persistent wheeze, a recent study has found.

In the 3-year follow-up of the EMPOWER-Lung 1 study, first-line cemiplimab continued to outdo chemotherapy (CT) in providing survival benefit for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Moreover, in the second-line setting (patients with progressive disease [PD]), cemiplimab added to CT provided meaningful and durable objective response rate (ORR) and overall survival (OS) benefit.