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Use of statins does not appear to be chemopreventive against colorectal cancer (CRC), and no significant association exists between total cholesterol level and CRC risk, a study has found. In addition, long-term statin use may increase the risk of colon cancer.

Digital health technologies (DHTs) can help lower healthcare utilization and costs but appear to have not enough juice to reduce the risk of relapse, improve quality of life (QoL), and increase treatment adherence in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study.

There appears to be a higher prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 than previously reported, reveals a recent study.

The memory B cell response appears to be weaker in vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a new Singapore study.

Women who have experienced miscarriage and stillbirth are at higher risk of stroke, as suggested in a recent meta-analysis.

Among patients with COVID-19 infection, those who smoke are at higher risk of developing complications compared with those who do not smoke, according to a study from Malaysia.

Switching to a fulvestrant-palbociclib regimen prior to disease progression after detection of elevated ESR1 mutations in the blood of patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+), HER2-negative (HER2-) metastatic breast cancer (mBC) who were receiving aromatase inhibitors (AIs) plus palbociclib extended their progression-free survival (PFS), results of the phase III PADA-1 trial showed.

A recent study has shown that more than a quarter of young adults are seropositive for SARS-CoV-2, many of whom show single positivity with IgM. Such seropositivity was higher among those who had cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the household and those who used public transport.