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Improvements in overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were maintained with durvalumab in patients with unresectable stage III metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to updated results of the PACIFIC* trial presented at ASCO 2021.
Use of omalizumab for treating patients with severe allergic asthma in a real-world setting yields a steroid-sparing effect and helps minimize the occurrence of both clinically significant and severe asthma attacks, as reported in a study.
Patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma hospitalized for COVID-19 are at an increased risk of developing persistent COVID-19 and death, according to a retrospective study presented at EHA 2021.
Patient-related factors, such as sex, comorbidities, and medical history, affect the risk of early mortality in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), reports a recent meta-analysis.
In the treatment of patients with moderate-to-very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), triple treatment with budesonide, glycopyrrolate, and formoterol fumarate confers greater improvements in symptoms and health-related quality of life relative to dual therapies, according to data from the ETHOS trial.
The increasing use of social media and online reviews has made it easier for patients to comment publicly—on Facebook and Google reviews, for instance—on the care they receive. Positive comments are heartening for any healthcare professional to read.
The latest SARS-CoV-2 mutant to join the league of WHO-declared variant of concern (VOC) —B.1.617.2 (now known as the Delta variant) — has sparked global concern, and for good reasons.
Treatment with a fixed-dose combination of budesonide and albuterol (BDA) in a single pressurized metered-dose inhaler (pMDI), also known as PT027, significantly prevents exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) in adolescents and adults with asthma, according to the TYREE* study presented at ATS 2021.
The SGLT2 inhibitor dapagliflozin did not result in a reduced incidence of organ failure or death in patients with cardiometabolic risk factors who were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the phase III DARE-19* trial. However, this finding does not support discontinuation of SGLT2 inhibitors in COVID-19 patients.
Analysis of the German COVID-19 registry suggests that patients with rheumatic or musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) who are treated with tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors appear to be at lower risk of severe outcomes of COVID-19 compared with those treated with other (non-TNF inhibitor) immunomodulatory treatments (OIDs).
