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Shorter colonoscopies tied to higher colorectal cancer rates

Posted on: 01/10/2015 - 06:01

Risk of interval colorectal cancer (CRC) more than doubled when average withdrawal times during routine colonoscopy were less than 6 minutes, investigators reported in the October issue of...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model

Posted on: 30/09/2015 - 21:40

LAS VEGAS – There’s no easy fix for fibromyalgia, a problem that seems to lurk in the gap between mind and body. Pharmaceuticals don’t work too well, and patients usually stop taking them after a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Product pipeline promising for STI, pregnancy prevention

Posted on: 30/09/2015 - 19:31

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Multipurpose technologies such as vaginal rings, gels, and new types of diaphragms have the potential to address a gap in products that can prevent both unwanted pregnancy and...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Large study identifies psoriasis as an independent risk factor for major depression

Posted on: 30/09/2015 - 17:38

Self-reported psoriasis more than doubled the odds of major depression, even after accounting for demographic factors and comorbidities, reported the authors of a study that used data from the...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Link between bacterial vaginosis and STIs unclear

Posted on: 29/09/2015 - 22:40

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Evidence is building for a link between bacterial vaginosis and an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, but clinical trial data demonstrating that treating...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

PCORI approves $83 million for HCV, rare disease research

Posted on: 29/09/2015 - 21:05

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) board has approved $83 million in funding for research on hepatitis C virus and other diseases, the group announced Sept. 28. Two of the 26...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Summary of Public health threats, CDTR week 39/201529 Sep 2015

Posted on: 29/09/2015 - 17:44

The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals about active public health threats. This issue covers the period 20-26 September 2015 and includes updates on West Nile fever, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and Middle East... more

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Evidence links common endocrine-disrupting chemicals to obesity, diabetes, reproductive disorders

Posted on: 28/09/2015 - 22:49

Cash register receipts, tin can linings, and a range of cosmetics and other common household products increasingly are implicated in the most intractable of society’s diseases such as obesity and...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Long-term responses possible in advanced kidney cancer?

Posted on: 28/09/2015 - 20:12

VIENNA – The survival benefit shown by nivolumab in the phase III CheckMate 025 trial may offer hope of even longer survival benefits in advanced ki

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Computer-aided detection fails to improve mammographic accuracy

Posted on: 28/09/2015 - 16:00

Augmenting digital screening mammography with computer-aided detection failed to improve diagnostic accuracy in every performance measure and every subgroup of women studied in a series of 625,625...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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