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The use of minocycline as add-on to antidepressant treatment in patients with treatment-resistant depression is safe but falls short of efficacy thresholds relative to placebo, as shown in a study.

Many infectious disease-related hospital admissions in patients with inflammatory bowel disease may have been prevented by immunization, suggests a study.

Applying roflumilast cream topically once-a-day helps clear plaque psoriasis in 8 weeks, according to pooled data from the phase III DERMIS-1 and DERMIS-2 trials.

Serum levels of adalimumab at week 2 is associated with short-term clinical remission in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a study has shown.

Rocatinlimab improved disease severity in patients with moderate-to-severe head and neck atopic dermatitis (H&N AD), a post hoc analysis of a phase IIb trial has shown.

PCSK9 inhibition with evolocumab produces clinically meaningful and sustained reductions in certain lipid parameters in a predominantly Arabic population of individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and other non-FH indications, according to a study.

Older adults who receive a high-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine have a 49 percent reduced risk of death and a 64 percent reduced risk of hospitalization for influenza or pneumonia compared with those who receive a standard-dose vaccine, results of the DANFLU-1 study showed.

Delayed intake of a progestogen-only pill (POP) or missing one pill does not necessarily reduce its theoretical contraceptive protection, with little effect on cervical mucus and ovulation, as shown in a study.

In the phase III SPRINTER trial, inhaled interferon-beta-1a (IFN-β1a) showed encouraging signals for preventing disease progression or death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.