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No new cardiovascular warnings needed for NSAIDs say FDA advisers

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 23:00

SILVER SPRING, MD. – There do not need to be major changes to the warning labels on prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, said a group of federal advisers on...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

NSAID makers argue against new warnings on CV risks

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 14:05

SILVER SPRING, MD. – Manufacturers of prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications said at a <link...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

New stroke guidelines focus on women’s risks

Posted on: 06/02/2014 - 21:00

Newly released guidelines provide the first evidence-based recommendations for preventing stroke in women. The document addresses the issues that uniquely increase stroke risk in women – pregnancy,...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Intensive BP, lipid control didn’t alter cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 21:00

Neither intensive blood pressure control nor intensive lipid management slowed cognitive decline in adults with long-standing type 2 diabetes. Additionally, after 40 months, patients in the ACCORD...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Intensive BP, lipid control didn’t alter cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 21:00

Neither intensive blood pressure control nor intensive lipid management slowed cognitive decline in adults with long-standing type 2 diabetes. Additionally, after 40 months, patients in the ACCORD...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

The politics of food addiction: Who wins, who 'loses'

Posted on: 28/01/2014 - 17:15

ATLANTA – It’s too soon to disrupt current obesity treatment by declaring food addiction to be a clinical condition, according to Dr. Paul Fletcher. "If we are to employ [the term] food...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

DDT metabolite may be associated with risk for Alzheimer’s

Posted on: 27/01/2014 - 21:00

A metabolite of the pesticide DDT – banned in the United States since 1972 – was associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in a small, case-control study. Levels of the chemical...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

One health system cut diabetes events, with set patient measures and cash for physicians

Posted on: 23/01/2014 - 19:30

An incentivized, system-based approach to improve care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases appeared to pay off after just 3 years by significantly cutting the incidence of adverse...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Two Alzheimer’s immunotherapy drugs flunk in four studies

Posted on: 22/01/2014 - 22:00

Two investigational Alzheimer’s immunotherapies failed to show any benefit in a series of phase III trials comprising more than 4,000 patients. Neither bapineuzumab, which targets soluble and...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ guideline follows convoluted endgame

Posted on: 04/01/2014 - 06:00

UPDATED Jan. 4, 2014 The federally funded program to produce a set of U.S. guidelines for hypertension management, a process more than 5 years in the making, came to an unusual end on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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