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In the post hoc analysis of data from the phase III LIBERTY ASTHMA VOYAGE study, the monoclonal antibody dupilumab reduced exacerbations and improved lung function in children aged between 6 and 11 years with moderate-to-severe asthma and baseline blood eosinophil count of ≥500 cells/μL.

Supplementation with vitamin D falls short of reducing psoriasis severity for individuals with 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels of <24 ng/mL, as reported in a study.

In the third-line treatment of patients with refractory RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC), use of panitumumab plus the standard-of-care trifluridine-tipiracil appears to prolong progression-free survival (PFS) when compared with trifluridine-tipiracil alone, according to data from a phase II study.

Patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), a reversible form of heart failure with incompletely understood pathophysiology, may exhibit reduced cardiac contractility, shortened systolic period, inefficient energetics, and prolonged active relaxation but unaffected diastolic passive stiffness, a study has shown.

The herbal combination of curcumin plus QingDai (CurQD) appears beneficial to patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC), with a recent study showing that the combination induced clinical and biomarker remission.

Children born to mothers who were exposed to polluted air while pregnant are at increased risk of childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study presented at PAS 2023.