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Among patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), treatment with biologic agents may lead to longer remission durations, a recent study has found. However, biologics appear to have no effect on the risk of resection, particularly in moderate to severe active disease.

In individuals with Wilson disease (WD), a rare disease of copper metabolism, ALXN1840 led to significantly greater copper mobilization compared with standard of care (SoC), findings from a rater-blinded phase III study have shown.

Treatment with maralixibat significantly reduced the severity of pruritus in children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) in the MARCH-PFIC* study presented at The Liver Meeting 2022.

Treatment with odevixibat, a potent, selective IBAT* inhibitor, significantly improved pruritus and reduced serum bile acid levels in children with Alagille syndrome (ALGS), according to the ASSERT** trial presented at The Liver Meeting 2022.

First-line treatment with durvalumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin (GC) leads to improved overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) across genomic variants, according to the results of the phase III study TOPAZ-1, presented at the ESMO Asia 2022.

Treatment with the selective THR-β* agonist resmetirom for 52 weeks was well-tolerated and effective in reducing markers of NASH** fibrosis in a well-compensated Child-Pugh (CP)-A NASH population, a phase III trial has shown.