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CDC confirms first U.S. case of deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Posted on: 03/05/2014 - 00:10

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in the United States. The patient, a health care worker who...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Panel recommends against low-dose CT for lung cancer in Medicare patients

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 14:45

Evidence is insufficient to support lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography in the Medicare population, members of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Mortality nearly halved with dual antiplatelet therapy in severe PAD

Posted on: 23/04/2014 - 16:15

WASHINGTON – Long-term dual-antiplatelet therapy may provide a mortality benefit over aspirin alone in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease. In an observational study of 629 patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Even mild preop sepsis boosts postop thrombosis risk

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 19:50

WASHINGTON – Preoperative sepsis proved to be an important independent risk factor for both arterial and venous thrombosis during or after surgery in an analysis of nearly 1.75 million U.S. surgical...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Complication rates decline among diabetes patients

Posted on: 16/04/2014 - 22:00

The rate of diabetes-related myocardial infarction has fallen almost 68% since 1990, according to an analysis of several federal data sources. From 1990 to 2010, the rate of acute MI among adults...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Some providers quicker to tube feed end-of-life elderly

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 17:00

Hospitalists who care for dementia patients near the end of life are much less likely to introduce a feeding tube than other physicians who follow such patients. Compared with nonhospital...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Menopause doesn’t drive severe asthma

Posted on: 14/04/2014 - 20:45

MADRID – Menopause is blamed for many things, but it’s unlikely to be the reason for the increased risk of severe asthma or worse quality of life in elderly asthmatic women, a study...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Off-label use of novel anticoagulants accelerates

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 18:30

WASHINGTON – The off-label use of novel oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in patients with valvular atrial fibrillation has climbed steeply since the drugs reached the marketplace, mirroring...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

New data question oseltamivir’s influenza efficacy, safety

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 00:01

A new systematic review of clinical studies of the oral anti-influenza drug oseltamivir that included a substantial amount of clinical data that were not part of previously published assessments...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance feasible and prognostic in obese patients

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 20:30

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance is highly feasible and prognostically useful in obese patients, a population in which stress imaging methods are limited, according to a study of nearly 300 patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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