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Women who follow a healthful plant-based diet have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, especially aggressive tumours, a recent study suggests.

An infusion of convalescent plasma, obtained via blood donation from individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, did not prevent disease progression in high-risk outpatients who presented within 7 days of COVID-19 symptom onset, results of the phase III US-based SIREN-C3PO* study showed.

A structured lifestyle modification programme that combines a healthy eating plan and regular aerobic exercise promotes blood pressure (BP) control and improves cardiovascular disease biomarkers in patients with resistant hypertension, as shown in the TRIUMPH study.

Among systemic lupus erythematosus patients, SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses after BNT162b2 vaccination seem to be impaired in the presence of poor baseline humoral immune status, low naïve B cell frequencies, and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and methotrexate (MTX) use, according to a study.

The investigational, first-in-class, allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor deucravacitinib showed durable efficacy for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis*, according to the 52-week efficacy analysis results of the POETYK** PSO-1 and POETYK PSO-2 trials presented at EADV 2021.

A wearable chest patch device can continuously monitor vital signs in patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), facilitating the early detection of cardiovascular deterioration, according to a recent study.