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Novel topical rosacea drug sails through phase III

Posted on: 19/02/2014 - 20:15

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Ivermectin 1% cream for the treatment of papulopustular rosacea convincingly hit all of its primary efficacy and safety endpoints in two pivotal phase III clinical trials. The...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Citalopram improves agitation in Alzheimer’s patients but has cardiac risks

Posted on: 18/02/2014 - 21:00

Daily oral citalopram improved agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and reduced caregiver stress but was associated with a higher rate of cardiac adverse effects than was placebo at the...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Annual mammography at age 40-59 provides no survival benefit

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 20:55

Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Annual mammography at age 40-59 provides no survival benefit

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 20:55

Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

NIH and pharma partner on RA, lupus, diabetes, Alzheimer’s research

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 15:35

The National Institutes of Health, 10 biopharmaceutical companies, and several nonprofit organizations have partnered to transform the current model for identifying and validating the most promising...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Postpartum elevated thrombosis risk lasts 12 weeks

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 20:40

The risk of thrombosis in women giving birth for the first time was 10- to 11-fold higher in the first 6 weeks postpartum, but in a report presented at the International Stroke Conference, Dr. Hooman...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

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

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

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