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CMSC: Many menopausal and MS symptoms overlap

Posted on: 07/06/2015 - 13:20

INDIANAPOLIS – About 50% of women with multiple sclerosis are postmenopausal, but objective data about the impact of menopause on the course of multiple sclerosis are lacking. “We don’t know...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Topiramate

Posted on: 18/11/2014 - 16:23

At Motherisk, we receive increasing numbers of queries from women and clinicians about the use of topiramate during pregnancy, mostly related to its use for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Acetaminophen no better than placebo for acute low back pain

Posted on: 30/07/2014 - 20:15

Acetaminophen taken regularly or as required was no better than placebo in improving time to recovery in patients with acute low back pain, Australian research shows. A randomized,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Many late-life hospitalizations and ED visits could be avoidable

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 15:15

WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable. Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:20

LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:20

LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

USPSTF: Evidence still ‘insufficient’ to back cognitive impairment screening

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 21:00

Citing an ongoing lack of data about the benefits and harms of screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has left unchanged the recommendations of its 2003 guidelines on cognitive impairment...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Nanotherapies make inroads in wound regeneration

Posted on: 21/03/2014 - 22:00

DENVER – Move over, gauze, bandages, and moist wound-healing techniques. Nanomaterials are making significant inroads in wound regeneration. Dr. Adam Friedman, director of dermatologic research at...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Physicians are major source for frequent opioid misusers

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 21:15

Most people who misuse opioid pain relievers cite friends and relatives as their sources for the drugs, but more of the people who misuse these agents most often – those who take them from 200 to 365...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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

CMSC: Many menopausal and MS symptoms overlap

Topiramate

Acetaminophen no better than placebo for acute low back pain

Many late-life hospitalizations and ED visits could be avoidable

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

Plasma fluoride levels tied to voriconazole-induced periostitis

USPSTF: Evidence still ‘insufficient’ to back cognitive impairment screening

Nanotherapies make inroads in wound regeneration

Physicians are major source for frequent opioid misusers

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

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