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Breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant endocrine therapy appear to experience symptoms similar in type and intensity to those of symptomatic menopausal women, according to a retrospective study. However, the use of aromatase inhibitors is associated with less severe depressive symptoms.

Low-dose interleukin 2 (IL-2) therapy may be used to treat moderate-to-severe bullous pemphigoid (BP), as shown by earlier treatment responses of patients in a recent study.

The selective agonist of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor-1 (S1PR1), proximod, appears to be well tolerated and helps reduce blood lymphocyte count in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a phase I study.

In the noninferiority BALANCE* trial, 7 days of antibiotic use is as effective as 14 days for treating bloodstream infections (BSIs) in hospitalized patients, drawing renewed interest from clinicians attending IDWeek 2024.

Statins appear to be beneficial to patients with cirrhosis, being associated with reduced risks of portal hypertension and its complications as well as death, according to a study.

Achieving target serum urate levels with urate-lowering therapy (ULT) does not appear to worsen kidney function in patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD), as shown in a study.