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For patients with stage III or IV melanoma, treatment with pembrolizumab both before and after surgical resection leads to longer event-free survival than treatment with pembrolizumab only after the procedure, according to the results of a phase II study.

Vitamin D may offer brain boosting benefits, with a large study providing evidence that vitamin D supplementation exerts some effect in the prevention of dementia.

Outpatient oritavancin therapy for patients with acute uncomplicated cellulitis results in a decrease in 30-day hospital readmissions or admissions when compared with inpatient standard of care (SoC), a recent study has shown.

The phase III STELLAR trial lives up to its name, delivering stellar results and offering hope for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare, progressive, life-threatening disorder affecting the heart and lungs, by adding sotatercept – a novel first-in-class activin signalling inhibitor – to background therapy.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA), initiation of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor treatment does not carry a higher short-term risk of cancer, with the exception of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), as compared with initiation of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) including tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, according to a study.

The addition of the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole to current antidepressant medications may help improve the symptoms of clinical depression in older adults who have not responded to standard treatments, as reported in a study.