IMN || Across Specialties

It’s time to put to rest the calcium supplement controversy

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 13:55

SAN DIEGO – Lingering concern over increased risk cardiovascular events and mortality associated with calcium supplementation do not outweigh the bone benefits of calcium supplements, Connie Weaver,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Battlefield lessons improve treatment of traumatic scars

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:50

DENVER – Military dermatologists have played an active role in helping wounded warriors with their scars, and those physicians’ practices, including the use of ablative fractional resurfacing, are...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Psoriatic pruritus improves with TrkA-blocking drug

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:05

An investigational topical drug that targets a nerve sensitization pathway showed good efficacy against chronic itch in patients with pruritic psoriasis. CT327 works by inhibiting the kinase pathway...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Tofacitinib found noninferior to etanercept for treating psoriasis

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 17:10

DENVER – Key results from a phase III trial found that an investigational Janus kinase inhibitor was noninferior to a biologic agent for treating psoriasis. During a late-breaking session at the...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Half of stroke survivors returned to driving

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 15:40

SAN DIEGO – Only 6% of 162 stroke survivors underwent a formal driving evaluation, but 51% returned to driving within a year,

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

I-125 brachytherapy for prostate cancer linked to small increase in bladder cancer risk

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 14:45

Second primary malignancies affected 10.8% of men who received I-125 brachytherapy as monotherapy for prostate cancer, researchers reported in the April issue of Clinical Oncology. But only bladder...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

No benefit from androgen deprivation therapy in localized prostate cancer

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 14:00

For most men with localized prostate cancer who defer surgery or radiation, primary androgen deprivation therapy offers no mortality benefit, Dr. Arnold L. Potosky reported. Dr. Potosky of...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Postmastectomy radiotherapy improves survival with one to three positive nodes

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 13:10

Radiotherapy after mastectomy for women with one to three positive nodes significantly reduces the risk of recurrence and breast cancer mortality, researchers found in a meta-analysis. With...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Postmastectomy radiotherapy improves survival with one to three positive nodes

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 13:10

Radiotherapy after mastectomy for women with one to three positive nodes significantly reduces the risk of recurrence and breast cancer mortality, researchers found in a meta-analysis. With...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Bariatric surgery reduces uterine cancer risk

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 22:00

TAMPA – Women who undergo bariatric surgery to lose weight are about 70% less likely to develop uterine cancer than are obese women who do not undergo such surgery, according to findings from a large...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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