CME-candidate

Short-term hormone replacement therapy upped ovarian cancer risk

Posted on: 12/02/2015 - 23:30

Current, short-term use of hormone replacement therapy led to a 43% increase in risk of serous and endometrioid ovarian cancers, according to a large ... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Smoking linked to many ‘new’ causes of death

Posted on: 11/02/2015 - 22:00

Smoking causes death from many diseases that until now have not been linked officially to tobacco use, including digestive disorders, liver cirrhosis,... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Smoking linked to many ‘new’ causes of death

Posted on: 11/02/2015 - 22:00

Smoking causes death from many diseases that until now have not been linked officially to tobacco use, including digestive disorders, liver cirrhosis,... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Smoking impairs biologic response in axial spondyloarthritis

Posted on: 09/02/2015 - 23:30

Patients with axial spondyloarthritis who smoke and have elevated C-reactive protein levels respond less well to anti–tumor necrosis factor treatmen... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

NASH on the rise as a cause of liver transplants

Posted on: 09/02/2015 - 19:10

Since 2004, there’s been almost a tripling of the number of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients waiting for liver transplants; the condition is no... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Contraceptive implant, IUD effective beyond FDA-approved use time

Posted on: 06/02/2015 - 21:10

Two long-acting reversible contraceptive devices remained highly effective for about a year beyond their approved durations of use, according to the p... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Acute RA flares increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Posted on: 06/02/2015 - 20:46

Exposure to acute flares of rheumatoid arthritis significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, according to findings from a population-... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Type 1 diabetes deadlier in women

Posted on: 05/02/2015 - 23:30

Women with type 1 diabetes have a much higher risk of death from all causes than do men with type 1 diabetes, according to Dr. Rachel Huxley and her a... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Threefold increase in cirrhosis risk with HCV

Posted on: 04/02/2015 - 15:26

Individuals with hepatitis C infection are three times more likely to develop cirrhosis than are those who are hepatitis C negative, and fibrosis prog... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Rise in reports of pain, depression in last year of life in oncology patients

Posted on: 02/02/2015 - 22:00

The extent of pain, depression, and anorexia are rising in the last year of life for oncology patients, based on a survey of their family members. M... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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