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20 years after initiating preventive tamoxifen, less breast cancer but no survival benefit

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 18:55

SAN ANTONIO – Five years of tamoxifen provided 20 years of breast cancer prevention to some at-risk women who took it prophylactically. However, their 20-year all-cause mortality was no different...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

20 years after initiating preventive tamoxifen, less breast cancer but no survival benefit

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 18:55

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Maintenance tacrolimus for eczema boosts quality of life

Posted on: 15/12/2014 - 14:13

AMSTERDAM – Twice-weekly proactive maintenance therapy with 0.1% tacrolimus ointment in adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis resulted in dramatic improvement in self-reported quality of...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Hormone therapy ‘timing hypothesis’ gains ground in ELITE

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 18:04

CHICAGO– The “timing hypothesis” of estrogen’s ability to slow progression of atherosclerotic disease in relatively young postmenopausal women received a boost in results from a randomized trial with...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Adding terlipressin didn’t help hepatorenal syndrome

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 22:40

BOSTON – Treating patients with hepatorenal syndrome type 1 for up to 14 days using terlipressin plus albumin rather than albumin alone did not improve the chances of confirmed reversal of...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

North America has highest rate of obesity-related cancers

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:08

For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Diet, exercise reduced portal hypertension in obese cirrhotic patients

Posted on: 10/12/2014 - 19:56

BOSTON – A 16-week diet and exercise program reduced body weight and portal pressure in a prospective pilot study of 50 obese patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Twenty-six patients...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Cancer patients with incidental VTE have high risk of recurrent thrombi

Posted on: 09/12/2014 - 17:15

SAN FRANCISCO – Unless there is a clear contraindication to anticoagulation therapy, cancer patients who have an incidental pulmonary embolism discovered during imaging studies should receive chronic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Ultrasound screening for dense breasts is high cost, offers little benefit

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 22:00

Supplemental screening ultrasonography would add substantial costs while providing little clinical benefit after a negative screening mammography in women with dense breasts, according to three...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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