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In patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), those who received hydrocortisone had a lower mortality risk compared with those on placebo, findings from the CAPE COD* trial suggest.

An umbrella review of meta-analyses on cannabis studies reveals that this psychoactive drug, more popularly known as marijuana, is only effective among people with epilepsy and should be avoided by adolescents and young adults, those who are prone to or with mental health disorders, pregnant women, and those who are driving.

In patients with HER-2-overexpressing metastatic or advanced gastric/gastroesophageal (G/GEJ) adenocarcinoma, a regimen comprising standard-of-care chemotherapy and a HER2-targeting peptide vaccine induced antibody responses that corresponded with tumour size reduction, according to an analysis of the HERIZON study which looked into the correlation between antibody responses and clinical outcomes.

Combination treatment with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib appears to be a better option for patients with recurrent endometrial cancer (REC) or advanced endometrial cancer (AEC) with a platinum-free interval (PFI) of <6 months, suggests a recent study.