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Nivolumab is a promising therapy for patients with thymic epithelial tumours who have received multiple-line treatments, suggests a study. However, the high rate of severe toxicities specifies a need to find out a reliable marker to predict patients who will derive benefit or exhibit toxicity.

Nonrecreational physical activity (PA) like housework improves cognitive function in older adults, particularly in the domains of attention and memory, according to a recent Singapore study.

Consuming high amounts of calories contributes to an increase in the risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), while the diet composition in terms of macronutrients does not seem to be related to the presence or severity of the disease, according to the results of a meta-analysis.

The pleuromutilin inhibitor lefamulin shows similarly high efficacy as moxifloxacin (a standard fluoroquinolone therapy for clearing bacterial pneumonia) regardless of whether it was for unilobar or multilobar pneumonia, according to pooled data of the LEAP* 1 and 2 studies.

In the treatment of older patients with essential hypertension, fimasartan alone or combined with hydrochlorothiazide demonstrates comparable safety and efficacy to perindopril monotherapy or in combination with indapamide, as shown in the results of a phase IIIb trial.

The introduction of pegfilgrastim biosimilar may lower the cost and lessen some of the financial pressure on the healthcare system, suggests a study in France.