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A novel predictive score shows acceptable accuracy for predicting early mortality in intubated patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), reports a recent study.

Panbio, a rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2, has good specificity but limited sensitivity, as shown in a study. As such, all negative tests have to be confirmed with RT-PCR, especially in the presence of related symptoms, in settings with high community infection rate, and in cases of direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients.

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution takes a toll on exercise responses among healthy people but not former smokers with or without chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), a study has found.

In patients with completely resected stage II–IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who had previously received adjuvant cisplatin chemotherapy, adjuvant atezolizumab extended disease-free survival (DFS), particularly in those with PD-L1 expression ≥1 percent on tumour cells, interim results of the phase III IMpower010 trial showed.