relapse
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The Swiss pharmaceutical company said Monday that the drug, called fenebrutinib, reduced the annualized relapse rate—when symptoms get worse—by 51% compared with Sanofi’s Aubagio over a period of at least 96 weeks of treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
"I was meant to return to Leicester but they didn't want me back in because they didn't want a relapse on their books. So I trained alone for a week and then went into Charlton."
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
The stories in Lauren Groff’s third collection, “Brawler,” largely feature people who’ve hit crisis points in their lives: the abusive partner, the natural disaster, the relapse, the deathbed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Current treatments rely largely on immunosuppression, which does not work for everyone and can leave patients vulnerable to relapse.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
Worse, too-frequent relapse of memory, often in association with trigger object.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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