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Phytoestrogens may prevent, treat asthma and allergy

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

SAN DIEGO – Could increased consumption of phytoestrogens help prevent or treat asthma and allergy? Dr. Jessica Savage, an allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and her...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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FDA vaccines panel: Retain current strains in next season’s influenza vaccines

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 22:25

SILVER SPRING, MD. – The trivalent and quadrivalent influenza vaccines for the 2014-2015 influenza season in the United States should retain the same strains that are included in the current season’s...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

CDC: Younger adults least likely to be vaccinated and most likely to be hard hit by flu

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:45

So far, the 2013-2014 influenza season has been hardest on young and middle-age adults, with 61% of flu hospitalizations occurring in the 18- to 64-year-old age group, the Centers for Disease Control...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

CPAP improves resistant hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Posted on: 10/12/2013 - 21:00

For patients who have resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea, 3 months of treatment with continuous positive airway pressure significantly reduces mean and diastolic blood pressure and...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Smoking cessation agents don’t raise serious CVD risks

Posted on: 09/12/2013 - 21:00

The three smoking cessation agents bupropion, varenicline, and nicotine replacement therapy did not raise the risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events in a network meta-analysis of 63 randomized...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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Phytoestrogens may prevent, treat asthma and allergy

FDA vaccines panel: Retain current strains in next season’s influenza vaccines

CDC: Younger adults least likely to be vaccinated and most likely to be hard hit by flu

CPAP improves resistant hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Smoking cessation agents don’t raise serious CVD risks

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