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Treatment with apremilast showed clear or almost clear skin in paediatric patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, according to the SPROUT study presented at AAD 2023.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who have undergone unilateral focused ultrasound ablation of the internal segment of globus pallidus show improved motor function or reduced dyskinesia over a period of 3 months, although the procedure comes with adverse events, according to a study.

A US study reports about one in four top-performing hospitals being reclassified to a lower performance group when Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are included in the assessment of hospital readmission and mortality.

The combination of bevacizumab and irinotecan (BEV+IRI) as second-line treatment of glioblastoma (GBM) results in better median progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) when compared with historical controls, and its toxicity profile is comparable to published data, reports a study.

One cardiac arrest occurs for every 9,000 delivery hospitalizations, among which about seven in 10 women survive to be discharged from the hospital, according to a study. In addition, survival is lowest during hospitalizations with co-occurring disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

Among individuals with psoriasis, oral vitamin D supplementation does not appear to have any favourable effect on disease severity for those with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels, as reported in a study.

Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) significantly reduced BMI in severely obese adolescents compared with intensive nonsurgical treatment in the AMOS2* study.

The use of antifibrotic therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has the potential to improve survival outcome, as reported in a study.