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Pediatric information added to label of hepatitis B antiviral entecavir

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 19:30

Information on the use of entecavir in children down to age 2 years has been added to the prescribing information for the chronic hepatitis B drug, the Food and Drug Administration has announced....

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Say goodbye to ‘dementia’

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 18:50

ORLANDO – This May, the hallowed term "dementia" is supposed to be tossed onto the scrapheap of discarded psychiatric nomenclature, replaced by "major neurocognitive disorder."...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Most health care–associated infections aren’t device associated

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 18:30

An estimated 4% of inpatients at U.S. acute care hospitals have at least one health care–associated infection on any given day, according to a report published online March 26 in the New England...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Late-life depression can be dementia prodrome

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 14:05

ORLANDO – Elderly patients with acute depression who show deficits on brief structured tests of memory and executive function are at high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease within the next few...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

It’s time to put to rest the calcium supplement controversy

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 13:55

SAN DIEGO – Lingering concern over increased risk cardiovascular events and mortality associated with calcium supplementation do not outweigh the bone benefits of calcium supplements, Connie Weaver,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

It’s time to put to rest the calcium supplement controversy

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 13:55

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Is bariatric surgery the right treatment model for obesity?

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 21:10

WASHINGTON – Bariatric surgery has the greatest amount of data demonstrating its efficacy in reducing the comorbidities of obesity, as well as providing a long-term solution to the disease itself,...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Choice vs. regulation: the role of public policy in obesity management

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 21:05

WASHINGTON – It’s not people who’ve changed over the last 3 decades, but the environment around them that has brought on the obesity crisis, according to the deputy commissioner of the New York City...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

What causes ‘weight fate,’ and is it really inevitable?

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 21:00

WASHINGTON – Young children who are overweight are four times more likely to become obese as they age. Is this a sign that we are fated from youth to be a burden on the health care system, or are...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Battlefield lessons improve treatment of traumatic scars

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:50

DENVER – Military dermatologists have played an active role in helping wounded warriors with their scars, and those physicians’ practices, including the use of ablative fractional resurfacing, are...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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