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UTIs in type 2 diabetes can be costly

Posted on: 16/09/2014 - 21:35

VIENNA – Urinary tract infections are relatively common and can be quite expensive among patients with newly diagnosed diabetes. In a large patient database, the infection rate was about 128/1,000...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Minimal disease activity in psoriatic arthritis is a realistic target

Posted on: 16/09/2014 - 20:33

LAS VEGAS – A number of drugs are showing promise for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, but broader improvements are needed with respect to treatment strategies, according to Dr. Iain...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Minimal disease activity in psoriatic arthritis is a realistic target

Posted on: 16/09/2014 - 20:33

LAS VEGAS – A number of drugs are showing promise for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, but broader improvements are needed with respect to treatment strategies, according to Dr. Iain...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Switch ANCA-associated vasculitis patients to maintenance therapy after 6 months

Posted on: 16/09/2014 - 20:18

LAS VEGAS – After 3-6 months of remission induction therapy with high-dose steroids and cyclophosphamide, it’s time to switch ANCA-associated vasculitis patients to maintenance therapy. Recent...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Jury still out on effect of systemic psoriasis meds on MI risk

Posted on: 09/09/2014 - 15:05

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Results from some studies have concluded that treatment with conventional systemic or biologic therapy improves the elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: What’s your UV risk today? There’s an app for that

Posted on: 04/09/2014 - 16:55

EDINBURGH – How would you like a smartphone app that offers a personalized sun protection strategy based on location and skin type? At the 15th World Congress on Cancers of the Skin, Nina Goad,...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

IBS symptoms improve after fecal transplant

Posted on: 03/09/2014 - 14:25

Fecal microbiota transplant improved or alleviated symptoms in 70% of patients with refractory irritable bowel syndrome, a small retrospective study has determined. A single transfusion of fresh...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

COPPS-2 curtails colchicine enthusiasm

Posted on: 30/08/2014 - 12:00

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery who took colchicine had significantly less postpericardiotomy syndrome than did those on placebo, but this protective effect did not extend to postoperative atrial...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Fecal transplant cured severe or complicated C. difficile

Posted on: 29/08/2014 - 17:45

Fecal microbiota transplantation successfully treated severe and/or complicated Clostridium difficile infection in a retrospective, multicenter, long-term follow-up study of 17 patients in...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Field therapy preferred when treating actinic keratoses

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 14:00

VANCOUVER, B.C. – In the clinical opinion of Dr. Mariusz Sapijaszko, treating actinic keratosis without field therapy creates a disadvantage "because this is not an individual lesion...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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