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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

West Nile virus has cost the United States nearly $800 million

Posted on: 10/02/2014 - 22:00

Since the West Nile virus was first detected in New York in 1999, hospitalized patients in the United States have cost an estimated $778.1 million in health care expenditures and lost productivity,...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Preoperative organ dysfunction worsens SAVR outcomes

Posted on: 07/02/2014 - 17:35

SNOWMASS, COLO. – The presence of preoperative dysfunction in more than any one of four key organ systems profoundly reduces survival in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement, a study...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Preoperative organ dysfunction worsens SAVR outcomes

Posted on: 07/02/2014 - 17:35

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

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

Survey: Anti-MRSA drugs routinely prescribed for simple abscesses

Posted on: 04/02/2014 - 23:30

Nearly 90% of more than 500 dermatologists surveyed said they would initially prescribe an antibiotic to cover possible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus when incising and draining...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

CARDIA: Trajectory of blood pressure in young adults predicts later CAC

Posted on: 04/02/2014 - 21:00

Serial blood pressure measurements during young adulthood appear to predict the risk of subclinical coronary artery calcification, a surrogate for CVD risk, in middle age, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Current gout guidelines stress ‘treat to target’

Posted on: 04/02/2014 - 15:25

SNOWMASS, COLO. – The current American College of Rheumatology gout guidelines contain a number of recommendations that may come as a surprise to rheumatologists and primary care physicians alike....

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

Physicians want to vaccinate, but money gets in the way

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

While almost all internists and family physicians feel a responsibility to ask about patients’ immunization status at least annually, most refer them to another source for all but basic seasonal...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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