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Pancytopenia warning added to label of hepatitis C drug boceprevir

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 21:55

A warning about cases of pancytopenia linked to the use of the oral hepatitis C antiviral drug boceprevir has been added to the drug’s label, the Food and Drug Administration has announced. There...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Colchicine: Old drug with a new trick

Posted on: 12/02/2014 - 14:40

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Colchicine, a venerable drug Hippocrates proposed as a gout remedy some 2,400 years ago, shows fresh potential as a novel treatment for osteoarthritis. "I’m going out on a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Removing opposite breast cuts 20-year mortality 48% in BRCA mutation carriers

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 23:30

Among early-stage breast cancer patients who carry BRCA mutations, prophylactic mastectomy of the contralateral breast appears to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer within 20 years by 48%,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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

Beta-blockers linked to lower mortality in high-risk prostate cancer

Posted on: 10/02/2014 - 22:25

The use of beta-blockers in men with metastatic and high-risk prostate cancer was associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer–specific mortality independent of statin or acetylsalicylic acid...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Sleeve gastrectomy often worsens GERD

Posted on: 06/02/2014 - 16:10

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy not only fails to improve gastroesophageal reflux disease in most patients who undergo the weight-loss procedure, it actually worsens GERD symptoms in many of them and...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Shift in approach needed for managing inflammatory arthritis in pregnancy

Posted on: 05/02/2014 - 21:35

SNOWMASS, COLO. – The common strategy of managing inflammatory arthritis during pregnancy by stopping all prepregnancy medications and prescribing prednisone is counterproductive, Dr. Megan E.B....

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Fecal immunochemical tests detect most colorectal cancers

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 22:00

Fecal immunochemical tests have an overall diagnostic accuracy of 95% for the detection of colorectal cancer, according to the results of a meta-analysis just published in the Annals of Internal...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Early anti-TNF-alpha treatment found effective in children with Crohn’s

Posted on: 01/02/2014 - 05:01

Children with Crohn’s disease who received antitumor necrosis factor-alpha within 3 months of diagnosis experienced better overall clinical and growth outcomes at 1 year, compared with their...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

IBD linked to increased risk of certain cancers

Posted on: 01/02/2014 - 05:01

Immunosuppressive therapies for inflammatory bowel disease do not appear to be implicated in the increased risk for melanomas and hematologic malignancies seen in these patients, based on the results...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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