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20 years after initiating preventive tamoxifen, less breast cancer but no survival benefit

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 18:55

SAN ANTONIO – Five years of tamoxifen provided 20 years of breast cancer prevention to some at-risk women who took it prophylactically. However, their 20-year all-cause mortality was no different...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Maintenance tacrolimus for eczema boosts quality of life

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 14:13

AMSTERDAM – Twice-weekly proactive maintenance therapy with 0.1% tacrolimus ointment in adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis resulted in dramatic improvement in self-reported quality of...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

North America has highest rate of obesity-related cancers

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:08

For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Osteoporosis medication use down in older women

Posted on: 10/12/2014 - 22:27

Even as the number of women aged 50 years and older continues to rise, the percentage who are taking osteoporosis medications has fallen by one-third since 2004-2005, the Agency for Healthcare...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Diet, exercise reduced portal hypertension in obese cirrhotic patients

Posted on: 10/12/2014 - 19:56

BOSTON – A 16-week diet and exercise program reduced body weight and portal pressure in a prospective pilot study of 50 obese patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Twenty-six patients...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Ultrasound screening for dense breasts is high cost, offers little benefit

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 22:00

Supplemental screening ultrasonography would add substantial costs while providing little clinical benefit after a negative screening mammography in women with dense breasts, according to three...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Ultrasound screening for dense breasts is high cost, offers little benefit

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 22:00

Supplemental screening ultrasonography would add substantial costs while providing little clinical benefit after a negative screening mammography in women with dense breasts, according to three...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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