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Experts have proposed a subtle approach to diagnosing obesity that shifts the focus from BMI alone. Instead, they urged using other body fat measures such as waist circumference or direct fat mass measurement and signs and symptoms of ill health to confirm excess body fat.

Addition of sintilimab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy maintained or improved health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and symptoms compared with chemotherapy alone in first-line (1L) treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a prespecified exploratory analysis of the phase III ORIENT-11 trial.

Treatment with colchicine appears to lower the risk of stroke and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) when used for longer duration, according to a study presented at ISC 2025. This beneficial effect, however, is not observed among patients with shorter follow-up duration.

The addition of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) to endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) provides significant clinical benefits to patients who experienced acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) caused by large vessel occlusion (LVO) with large ischaemic infarcts (LII), as shown by the findings of a meta-analysis presented at the recent ISC 2025.