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The article discusses a case study of the effectiveness of infliximab in treating a 54-year-old White female with anti-small ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme dermatomyositis. Topics mentioned include the patient's symptoms upon arrival to the rheumatology department including erythematous rash and generalized weakness, and the other medications given to her prior to starting infliximab including oral prednisolone and rituximab.

The article discusses a retrospective study that estimated the diagnostic yield of all ultrasound-guided pleural biopsies performed by physicians at the Oxford Center for Respiratory Medicine between 2010 and 2013, which included those biopsies conducted after "failed" thorascopy. It reports that 97% of all biopsies carried out during this period obtained sufficient pleural tissue for histological analysis, while 26% of all collected biopsy specimens showed pleural malignancy on histology.