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'Lottery' incentive increases compliance with FOBT

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 22:00

A financial incentive – offering patients a 10% chance of winning a $50 lottery if they completed a fecal occult blood test – improved compliance with the colorectal cancer screen by approximately...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Increased Alzheimer’s risk with long-term benzodiazepine use

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 20:59

BERLIN – Chronic use of benzodiazepines by elderly patients is associated with a 43%-51% increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 5-10 years later, according to a large case-control...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: No need to stop running for fear of knee osteoarthritis

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 18:42

BOSTON– Current running or a history of running did not raise the odds of knee osteoarthritis in the first population-based study of runners. Until this cross-sectional analysis of participants in...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

PC providers have knowledge gaps in lung cancer screening

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 18:13

CHICAGO – Nearly one-fourth of primary care providers were unaware of current lung cancer screening guidelines in a survey of 212 PC providers in North Carolina, a state with one of the nation’s...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Running history doesn’t contribute to knee OA risk

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 17:43

BOSTON– A history of current or past running did not contribute to a higher odds of developing knee osteoarthritis and may even have a slight protective effect, researchers found in a cross-sectional...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

OA patients benefit long term from exercise or manual therapy

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 15:05

BOSTON – Improvements in pain, stiffness, and physical function that occur with the addition of exercise therapy or manual therapy to usual care for patients at all stages of osteoarthritis extended...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Functional MRI shows diabetes-induced cognitive deficits in elderly

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 15:00

Elderly patients with type 2 diabetes had diminished frontal brain activity on functional magnetic resonance imaging that correlated with deficits in working memory and executive function,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Exercise, manual therapy for OA add incremental benefits to usual care

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 14:07

BOSTON – Exercise therapy or manual therapy provide benefits for improving osteoarthritis symptoms and physical function that go over and above what is obtained with usual care alone, according to...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Stress more dangerous for women with heart disease than for men

Posted on: 16/11/2014 - 17:30

Mental stress triggered significantly more myocardial ischemia in younger women with stable coronary heart disease than in younger men with CHD, according to a study presented at the American Heart...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Energy drink poison control calls involved cardiac, neurologic effects

Posted on: 16/11/2014 - 15:38

Children under 6 years old are among those at the highest risk for poison control calls related to energy drinks, yet those most likely to experience moderate or major clinical effects from energy...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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