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Adding camrelizumab to chemotherapy led to significantly improved overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), according to the ESCORT-1st* study.

The thiazide diuretic chlorthalidone significantly reduces systolic blood pressure (SBP) by an average of 10 mm Hg in patients with refractory hypertension and advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), reveals the CLICK* study presented at ASN 2021 — thus debunking the conventional belief that thiazide diuretics do not work in patients with advanced CKD.

Thirty-day readmissions are similar between patients who had at least one psychotropic medication upon discharge and those who had none, reports a study. However, the former has a higher number of discrepancies that require significantly more discharge interventions during a pharmacist-driven discharge medication reconciliation (DMR).

A test-negative, case-control study demonstrated the real-world effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine (Pfizer–BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna) among healthcare personnel in the US.

People who had an allergic response to the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination or who believe they will have an allergy to vaccination should not let their worries delay getting vaccinated — as most of them can still be fully vaccinated safely, suggest studies presented at ACAAI 2021.

Comedication with the analgesic dipyrone appears to contribute to excess mortality among patients receiving aspirin for secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, partly driven by an increase in ischaemic events, a study from Germany has found.