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Prognosis role of blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio established in IPAH
A higher ratio of blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin is indicative of worse outcomes and disease severity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), according to a study.

Speeding COVID-19 symptom recovery may not fall within the realm of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir
Treating COVID-19 patients who had been vaccinated or did not have risk factors for severe disease with ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir (nirmatrelvir–ritonavir) did not expedite the time to symptom alleviation, reported investigators in the EPIC-SR trial.

Anlotinib plus etoposide/carboplatin improves survival in extensive-stage SCLC
Use of anlotinib combined with etoposide and carboplatin (EC; chemotherapy) as first-line therapy for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) yields a significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) as well as overall survival (OS) benefits when compared with chemotherapy, according to data from the phase III ETER701 trial presented at ELCC 2024.

Amivantamab plus chemo tied to better outcomes in NSCLC
Treatment with amivantamab (ami) in combination with chemotherapy (chemo) results in substantially longer time to treatment discontinuation (TTD), time to subsequent therapy (TTST), and progression-free survival (PFS) after first subsequent therapy (PFS2) in patients with EGFR-mutant advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following progression on osimertinib, as shown in a postprogression analysis.





