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SEP-363856, a non-D2-receptor binding antipsychotic, reduced the PANSS total score from baseline more than the placebo in this 4-week experiment comprising individuals with acute exacerbations of schizophrenia. Longer and larger trials are required to confirm SEP-363856’s effects and side effects as well as its efficacy in comparison to other medications currently used to treat schizophrenia patients.

The study included 1,306 patients (darolutamide: 651, placebo: 655), with 86.1% having metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis. At the primary analysis’s data cutoff date (October 25, 2021), the risk of death in the darolutamide group was 32.5% lower than in the placebo group. Adverse events were comparable in both groups, and the most common adverse events (occurring in 10% of patients) were most common during the overlapping docetaxel treatment period in both groups.

A total of 168 patients were randomly assigned to receive tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (84 patients) or ipilimumab (84 patients). The median progression-free survival in the TIL group was 7.2 months and 3.1 months in the ipilimumab group; 49% and 21% of the patients, respectively, had an objective response. The TIL group had a median overall survival of 25.8 months, while the ipilimumab group had a median overall survival of 18.9 months.

A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial including people with COPD and chronic breathlessness was conducted at 20 Australian medical centers. One-hundred sixty participants were randomized to oral extended-release morphine versus placebo. The change in the intensity of worst breathlessness at week 1 was not significantly different between the morphine group and the placebo group.

In a trial randomizing 372 participants to deferiprone or placebo, nigrostriatal iron content decreased more in the deferiprone group than in the placebo group, but that didn’t correlate to a clinical benefit. Instead, 22% of those on the chelator required initiation of dopaminergic therapy versus 2.7% of those in the placebo group.

In this “Letters to Blood,” the author demonstrated that luspatercept provided prolonged periods of transfusion independence (TI), significantly decreased the transfusion burden among HTB and LTB patients, and generally had an acceptable and predictable safety profile, all of which helped to maintain or enhance patient quality of life. Compared to the results from the primary analysis, these data further demonstrate the clinical benefits of luspatercept in patients with LR-MDS-RS.