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....
The recombinant influenza vaccine is now recommended as an option for adults with egg allergies, according to the 2014 recommended vaccine schedule for adults.
Approved last year, the recombinant...
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...
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...
Neither intensive blood pressure control nor intensive lipid management slowed cognitive decline in adults with long-standing type 2 diabetes.
Additionally, after 40 months, patients in the ACCORD...
Excess intake of sugar in the diet significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular mortality, independently of other risk factors, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition...
Neither intensive blood pressure control nor intensive lipid management slowed cognitive decline in adults with long-standing type 2 diabetes.
Additionally, after 40 months, patients in the ACCORD...
SAN DIEGO – Results from studies conducted to date indicate that anti-PD-L1 therapy is well tolerated in patients with non–small cell lung cancer, with rapid response rates.
In fact, responses are...
SNOWMASS, COLO. – Pegloticase (Krystexxa) is a gout drug that’s expensive, inconveniently administered by intravenous infusion every 2 weeks, and saddled with a substantial rate of immunogenicity,...
Immunosuppressive therapies for inflammatory bowel disease do not appear to be implicated in the increased risk for melanomas and hematologic malignancies seen in these patients, based on the results...