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The incidence of pericarditis recurrence or documentation of incessant symptoms within 12 months of the index hospitalization does not differ between heart failure (HF) patients treated with colchicine monotherapy and those who received NSAID monotherapy.

In older patients with untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), the addition of the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor acalabrutinib to bendamustine and rituximab (ABR) conferred a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) with a favourable trend for overall survival (OS), findings from the phase III ECHO trial have shown.

In the phase III ASC4FIRST study, asciminib – the first BCR::ABL1 inhibitor to Specifically Target the ABL Myristoyl Pocket (STAMP) – trumped all investigator-selected tyrosine kinase inhibitors (IS-TKIs; imatinib, nilotinib, dasatinib, and bosutinib) for the treatment of newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia in chronic phase (Ph+ CML-CP).

In the treatment of patients with early oligoarticular psoriatic arthritis (PsA), the use of apremilast yields substantial improvements in both clinical and patient-reported outcomes, as shown in the results of the phase IV FOREMOST study.

Tofacitinib demonstrates greater efficacy than placebo at week 12 in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) regardless of their baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, a study has shown.