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Virtual ward feasible home-based care strategy for high-risk COVID-19 patients
A technology-enabled virtual ward may be a feasible alternative to hospitalization for high-risk COVID-19 patients such as the elderly and the immunocompromised, a retrospective cohort study from Singapore suggests.
Add-on fluvoxamine of no benefit in mild-to-moderate COVID-19
In the treatment of patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, adding fluvoxamine to favipiravir does not appear to prevent disease progression or improve certain outcomes, according to the results of an open-label study.
CV health tool effectively promotes discussions during routine follow-up in cancer survivors
A novel electronic health record (EHR) clinical decision support tool, otherwise called the AH-HA* tool, was effective in promoting cardiovascular health (CVH) discussions among cancer survivors during routine follow-up. This was the primary result of a clinic-randomized, hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial presented at ASCO 2023.
Lazertinib improves PFS vs gefitinib in 1L treatment of EGFR-mutated NSCLC
The third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) lazertinib significantly improves progression-free survival (PFS) vs gefitinib in first-line (1L) treatment of patients with EGFR -mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harbouring an exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R mutation, results of the phase III LASER301 trial have shown.