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Perceived public stigma (PPS) towards psychosis has remained static over 9 years in Hong Kong, with different education groups showing unique patterns of changes in PPS and endorsement of medication treatment across the years, researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have reported.

The addition of vebicorvir to entecavir in treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection provides further antiviral activity, with a positive safety and tolerability profile, results of a phase II trial have shown.

Patients with early age-related macular degeneration (eAMD) appear to have increased serum cholesterol efflux capacity, according to a recent Singapore study. The same is true for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), but not for typical neovascular AMD (tAMD).

Adding nivolumab to paclitaxel-carboplatin chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting boosted progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with resectable stage IIIA–B non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to results of the phase II NADIM II trial from Spain.

Treatment with extended-release nifedipine helps reduce intrapartum acute hypertensive therapy among pre-eclampsia patients with severe features, as reported in a study.