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Household food insecurity appears to be associated with the manifestation of externalizing and internalizing behaviour problems in young children in Singapore through both nutritional deficits and family stress, according to a study.

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) after delivery appears to result in poorer sexual function, quality of life (QoL), and psychological health, suggests a China study.

In the primary analysis of the expanded-access ZUMA-18 trial, the autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy brexucabtagene autoleucel (brexu-cel) demonstrated a high level of efficacy in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma (R/R MCL).

Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) co-therapy appears to lower the risk of hospitalization for upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients receiving direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) treatment, according to a study from Korea.

Adjuvant treatment with alectinib, an anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor, significantly improved disease-free survival (DFS) better than platinum-based chemotherapy at 2 years in Asian patients with early-stage, completely resected ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (ALK+ NSCLC) in an exploratory analysis of the phase III ALINA trial.

Daily treatment with the immunomodulatory agent pomalidomide for 6 months significantly reduced severe nosebleeds in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) in the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled PATH-HHT trial.