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Elderly suicide prevention: Focus on housing transition

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 17:45

ORLANDO – Transition to an assisted-living facility or nursing home is a period of high risk for suicide among the elderly – as well as an opportunity for preventive intervention. That was the key...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Overcoming barriers to discussing sexual dysfunction

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – "We’re often not very well educated in medical school or in our residencies about how to talk to patients about sexual functioning and dysfunction," according to Dr. Anita H....

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Sprifermin injections showed some benefits for cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 19:09

In patients with knee osteoarthritis, intra-articular injections of 100 micrograms sprifermin led to significant benefits in measures of lateral femorotibial cartilage loss and joint space narrowing...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Simvastatin improves survival in cirrhosis-linked variceal bleeding

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 18:10

LONDON – Simvastatin improves short-term survival after variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis, results of a phase III, randomized, double blind study have shown. At 2 years’ follow-up in the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Some SSRIs are better than others for pregnant women

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 17:15

CHICAGO – The Food and Drug Administration’s letter rating scale is "unreliable" when it comes to prescribing antidepressants for pregnant women, according to Dr. Marlene P. Freeman,...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Data derail dogma of elective diverticulitis surgery

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 15:35

BOSTON – The risks of readmission and emergency surgery are low for patients with acute diverticulitis initially managed nonoperatively, a population-based, competing risk analysis found. At a...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Antiviral combo pill cures HCV in 8-12 weeks

Posted on: 16/04/2014 - 18:55

LONDON – A single daily pill containing two novel antiviral agents produced sustained virologic response rates of more than 90% in as little as 8-12 weeks in three multicenter, open-label phase III...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Some providers quicker to tube feed end-of-life elderly

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 17:00

Hospitalists who care for dementia patients near the end of life are much less likely to introduce a feeding tube than other physicians who follow such patients. Compared with nonhospital...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Obeticholic acid shows promise in primary biliary cirrhosis

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 15:35

LONDON – Obeticholic acid significantly reduced key liver enzyme and bilirubin levels in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis in a phase III trial. Results of <link...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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