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A healthier overall diet score and higher fibre, fruit, and vegetable scores result in better health outcomes in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study, noting a much lower proportion of participants avoiding dairy and meat or adhering to a specific MS diet than previously reported.

Though promising, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptom checkers—online, patient-led triage systems—are unable to reliably distinguish mild from severe COVID-19 and may instead put the public and healthcare workers at greater risk of infection, according to a recent study.

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients who are taking multiple medications together are at heightened risk of bone fractures, a study has found.

Patients with kidney disease appear to have a slightly elevated risk of dementia, which is driven by vascular dementia, a study suggests.

In patients with completely resected stage II–IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who had previously received adjuvant cisplatin chemotherapy, adjuvant atezolizumab extended disease-free survival (DFS), particularly in those with PD-L1 expression ≥1 percent on tumour cells, interim results of the phase III IMpower010 trial showed.

Overweight or obesity during pregnancy increases the risk of future nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the offspring, a recent Sweden study has found.