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Restarting treatment with maintenance olaparib in ovarian cancer patients who had received one prior poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor and at least two lines of platinum-based chemotherapy results in a modest but significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared with placebo, results of a phase III study have shown.

Use of semaglutide 2.4 mg results in substantial weight reduction in patients with severe obesity who had previously undergone bariatric surgery (BS) but failed to achieve satisfactory weight loss, reports a recent study.

In the treatment of patients with early syphilis, a 5-day course of linezolid does not appear to perform as well as the standard of care benzathine penicillin G (BPG), as shown in a study.

Use of phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor (PDE5i) for erectile dysfunction (ED) or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPD) does not seem to heighten the risk of ocular events in men, reveals a study.

The addition of carfilzomib to lenalidomide and dexamethasone (KRd) improved outcomes in individuals with newly diagnosed fit or intermediate-fit multiple myeloma who are transplant ineligible (NTE NDMM) as opposed to Rd only in the phase III EMN20 trial.