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Avoid these seven risk factors and slash Alzheimer’s risk

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 20:40

ORLANDO – Up to half of all cases of Alzheimer’s disease are attributable to seven modifiable risk factors – including depression, Dr. Kristine Yaffe asserted in her 2014 AAGP Distinguished Scientist...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Medicare asks experts to weigh in on low-dose CT lung cancer screening

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 13:00

Should Medicare pay for low-dose computed tomography to screen certain patients for lung cancer? A panel of expert advisers will meet April 30 to review the evidence and make a recommendation. The...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

FDA proposes to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 22:30

The Food and Drug Administration’s long-awaited proposal to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products as if they were cigarettes does not go far enough to protect the public, and...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Statin users eat more, gain more weight during 1999-2010

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 21:00

U.S. adults who take statins consumed 14.4% more fat and 9.6% more calories in 1999-2000 than a decade earlier, while the prevalence of statin use more than doubled during that time, investigators...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Simeprevir and sofosbuvir combo offers high SVR rates

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 19:10

LONDON – Cure rates of 93%-100% were achieved in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 treated with both simeprevir and sofosbuvir despite the presence of advanced cirrhosis in a phase...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Geriatric depression, pain respond to various drugs

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 17:35

ORLANDO – Duloxetine for the treatment of late-life depression missed its primary end point in a recent large randomized trial, but it did result in consistently significant clinical improvement,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Adding empagliflozin to metformin improved glycemic control in type 2 diabetes

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 17:10

Empagliflozin was associated with dose-dependent improvements in glycemic control and weight when added to metformin in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers. <link...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Laser's novel effect improves restrictive burn scars

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 14:50

PHOENIX – New techniques using very-low-density, very-high-energy ablative fractional carbon dioxide laser are helping thousands of patients – mostly soldiers – with restrictive scars from bombs or...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

High-normal HbA1c signals CAD risk in nondiabetic patients

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 14:15

Among patients who don’t have diabetes, high-normal hemoglobin A1c levels (at or above 5.8%) are strongly correlated with the risk of coronary artery disease, according to a report published online...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Obstructive sleep apnea complicates atrial fibrillation

Posted on: 23/04/2014 - 21:00

WASHINGTON – About 18% of U.S. patients with atrial fibrillation also have a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, and the confluence of the two appeared linked to increased hospitalizations and...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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