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In outpatients with an early diagnosis of COVID-19 at high risk for serious illness, treatment with the antiparasitic ivermectin did not reduce the incidence of hospital admission due to disease progression or of prolonged emergency department observation, findings from the TOGETHER trial suggest.

Following discontinuation of nucleot(s)ide analogue therapy, only about one-third of patients with HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B (CHB) achieve disease remission, with rare HBsAg loss, as reported in a study. The likelihood of HBsAg loss and disease remission is high in the presence of very low HBsAg levels at baseline.

Use of statins results in reduced all-cause mortality in nearly 30,000 veterans with colorectal cancer (CRC), results of a study have shown.

Switching from triple therapy to dual bronchodilation improves symptom control in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a new analysis of the DACCORD study.

The use of hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) among postmenopausal women may be associated with a reduced risk of mortality after a COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a retrospective study from Sweden.

A team of Singapore-based researchers has identified two blood biomarkers that not only predict clinical response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients but also the incidence of side effects from the same treatment.

Patients who take multivitamin supplements at a moderate dose following their diagnosis of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) appear to have a lower mortality, reports a recent study.