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Preceding hospitalization for acute COPD exacerbation was associated with increased risk for 90-day and overall mortality of cardiovascular events, according to a study published in CHEST.

Although influenza vaccination rates have increased in the United States, new data showed that less than 60% of U.S. adults plan to get vaccinated against influenza this season, despite fears of a COVID-19 “twindemic,” experts said.

Lorlatinib appeared superior to crizotinib as first-line treatment for advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer, according to an interim analysis of the randomized phase 3 CROWN study presented at ESMO Virtual Congress 2020.

Socioeconomic and insurance status appeared associated with increased mortality after prostate cancer surgery among Black men, who were twice as likely as white men to die of the disease, according to study results published in Cancer.

Primary care physicians will need to deploy safe, creative measures to improve influenza vaccination rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an expert told Healio Primary Care.

An unsupervised, automated machine learning algorithm successfully identified glioblastoma tumor cells and stratified survival outcomes, according to study results published in eLife.