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Laser therapy improved severe hyperhidrosis

Posted on: 30/04/2014 - 14:40

PHOENIX – Laser treatment of severe hyperhidrosis significantly reduced underarm sweating after 6 months in two separate but similar studies of 20 and 13 patients. Patients with scores of 3 or 4 on...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Contraception 2014: What you need to know

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 20:05

CHICAGO – From advances in long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) to emergency contraception, Dr. Eve Espey and Dr. Tony Ogburn of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, give you a quick...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Approval of mercaptopurine suspension will facilitate pediatric dosing

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 18:30

More than 60 years after it first became available as a 50-mg tablet, an oral suspension formulation of mercaptopurine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The oral suspension...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Uterine perforation rare with levonorgestrel and copper IUDs

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 17:45

CHICAGO – Uterine perforation rates are low for both the levonorgestrel intrauterine device and copper devices, and do not differ significantly between the two, according to the multinational...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Intraoperative wound anesthetic cut chronic pain after hip replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 19:05

PARIS – Adding local anesthetic to the wound during total hip replacement surgery for osteoarthritis reduced chronic pain, according to a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. At 12 months...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

PCPs waffle in referrals for total joint replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:15

PARIS – Primary care physicians are only moderately confident about which patients to refer for total hip or knee replacement, according to cross-sectional survey of 218 physicians. One-quarter...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Chronic kidney disease may raise cancer risk

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 16:00

LAS VEGAS – Patients with chronic kidney disease appear to be at increased risk for cancer, a study showed. A retrospective analysis of data on 31,896 participants in <link...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Inadequate weight gain ups preterm birth risk in twin pregnancies

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 22:00

Women with twin pregnancies who have inadequate gestational weight gain during the second trimester have a more than twofold increase in the risk of preterm birth before 32 weeks, compared with those...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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

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

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