SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to support the approval of the antibacterial drug dalbavancin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and...
Patients with chronic pancreatitis have a life expectancy that is roughly 8 years shorter than that of the general population.
Indeed, the "beyond a doubt" finding of a mortality rate up...
Wilson disease patients without cirrhosis at diagnosis generally have good long-term prognoses, but the presence of cirrhosis on diagnosis of this rare condition necessitates transplant in up to 13%...
DENVER – Changes in health insurance coverage are prompting a resurgence in the use of 5-fluorouracil to treat actinic keratoses, according to Dr. Linda Susan Marcus.
Not only is 5-fluorouracil...
Aspirin therapy improves survival in patients whose colon cancers express HLA class 1 antigen, but not in those whose tumors have lost that expression, investigators reported online March 31 in JAMA...
Aspirin therapy improves survival in patients whose colon cancers express HLA class 1 antigen, but not in those whose tumors have lost that expression, investigators reported online March 31 in JAMA...
WASHINGTON – Evolocumab, an investigational fully human monoclonal antibody, was associated with markedly greater LDL cholesterol reductions than ezetimibe in a phase III clinical trial of...
WASHINGTON – In the large STABILITY trial, darapladib did not significantly reduce the primary endpoint of cardiovascular death, MI, or stroke in patients with stable coronary disease.
The novel...
WASHINGTON – Adding colchicine to standard anti-inflammatory treatment for patients with recurrent pericarditis led to significantly fewer subsequent recurrences than did standard treatment alone in...
LAS VEGAS – About 40% of atrial fibrillation inpatients leave the hospital without a prescription for stroke prevention medications, according to a retrospective review from Northwestern University...