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U.S. C. difficile mortality jumped sevenfold 1999-2008

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 18:11

VIENNA – U.S. deaths from Clostridium difficile infection jumped roughly sevenfold from 1999 to 2008, but in the ensuing years (2009-2012), remained stable at about the level first reached in...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

FDA panel votes against panobinostat as add-on therapy for multiple myeloma

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 11:34

SILVER SPRING, MD. – The majority of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that the risk-benefit profile of panobinostat as add-on treatment to bortezomib and dexamethasone did not...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Chlamydia infection rates down for females aged 15-19 years

Posted on: 06/11/2014 - 21:25

The rate of chlamydia infection for females aged 15-19 years dropped significantly in 2012, while the rate of infection for 20- to 24-year-old females continued to rise, the Centers for Disease...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Abatacept + methotrexate makes early drug-free RA remission possible

Posted on: 06/11/2014 - 19:22

Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who achieved remission after 1 year of treatment with abatacept and methotrexate had a small but significantly greater rate of sustained remission for another...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

‘Co-rounding’ decreases patient length of stay

Posted on: 06/11/2014 - 19:14

BOSTON – When a palliative care oncologist partners with a medical oncologist on everyday rounds and in everyday practice on an inpatient floor, both patients and the clinicians who provide their...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Control of early RA maintained with reduced-dose etanercept plus methotrexate

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 22:00

For patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who achieved remission on full-dose etanercept plus methotrexate, continuing this combination treatment at a reduced dose controlled the disease better...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Trial backs rituximab for maintenance of ANCA-associated vasculitis remission

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 22:00

Infusions of rituximab proved superior to the standard of care, daily oral azathioprine, at maintaining remission of ANCA-associated vasculitis in a randomized trial. At final follow-up after 28...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Diet, exercise boost ovulation in PCOS

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 20:42

HONOLULU – Preconception diet and exercise, by themselves or in combination with oral contraceptives, improved ovulation rates, compared with birth control pills alone, in a randomized study of 149...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC: More can be done to prevent cervical cancer fatalities

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 19:54

Close to 8 million women aged 21-65 years were not screened for cervical cancer in the past 5 years even though the disease claims nearly 4,000 lives per year, according to 2012 data, the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC: More can be done to prevent cervical cancer fatalities

Posted on: 05/11/2014 - 19:54

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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