The dilemma of using drugs of questionable benefit

Recently, an article in JAMA Internal Medicine suggested that more than 50% of nursing home patients with advanced dementia are on “medications of questionable benefit.” The <a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Postdiagnosis imaging common in thyroid cancer

CORONADO, CALIF.– Today’s clinicians are ordering more postdiagnosis imaging tests in patients with thyroid cancer than they did in the early 1990s, results from the largest study of its kind...

Field of Interest: Oncology
Type: News Item

Androgen-deprivation therapy linked to cardiac death

Androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer may increase the risk of cardiac death among men who have congestive heart failure or who have experienced a previous myocardial infarction, a...

Field of Interest: Oncology
Type: News Item

Brain changes identified in chronic fatigue syndrome

Imaging to assess brain microstructure identified increased fractional anisotropy in the anterior right arcuate fasciculus of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, which was not present in age- and...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology
Type: News Item

VIDEO: More gonadotropin, fewer live births

SAN FRANCISCO– The higher the dose of gonadotropin for ovarian stimulation, the lower the live birth rate, a retrospective study of 541,967 cycles of assisted reproductive technology showed. The...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology
Type: News Item

Ovarian aging may be tip-off on cardiovascular risk

HONOLULU – Women with greater ovarian reserve had lower cardiovascular risk in a prospective study of 1,092 healthy, ovulating women aged 25-45 years, 250 of whom were followed for 3-5...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology
Type: News Item

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