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Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 876 new cases of COVID-19 infection on May 10. Two casualties have been recorded on May 6, bringing the total COVID-19 deaths in the city-state to 20. Older age seems a common factor among them.
After months of work disruption, profound worrying, social distancing, and isolation, SARS-CoV-2* still rages on, unyielding to human interventions.
Adults who develop peanut allergy in adulthood are less likely to receive a physician diagnosis of their allergy or use epinephrine compared with those with childhood-onset peanut allergy, according to a study from the US.
Use of the interleukin(IL)-1 inhibitor anakinra led to clinical improvements in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID)-19, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and systemic inflammation who are under noninvasive ventilation outside the intensive care unit (ICU), an Italian retrospective study has shown.
Treatment with trametinib, an MEK inhibitor, significantly improves progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian or peritoneal carcinoma (LGSOC) compared with standard of care (SOC), according to a study presented at SGO 20/20.
Adding trastuzumab to a chemotherapy backbone of carboplatin and paclitaxel led to sustained survival benefit in patients with recurrent/advanced, HER2-positive uterine serous carcinoma compared with chemotherapy alone, according to an updated survival analysis presented at SGO 2020 Meeting.
The addition of the TNFi* golimumab to the conventional synthetic DMARD** methotrexate (MTX) led to greater clinical improvements in dactylitis activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) compared with MTX monotherapy, results of the GO-DACT*** trial have shown.
The bevacizumab biosimilar BE1040V for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has met the noninferiority margin in a phase III trial.
Treatment with low-dose aspirin at <11 weeks’ gestation in women with recurrent miscarriage may reduce the risk of preterm delivery but not pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy and foetal growth restriction, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Use of aspirin during the implantation window of the menstrual cycle appears to increase fecundability, reveals a recent study.
