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Health care transition practices continue to evolve

Posted on: 12/08/2015 - 12:00

It’s been nearly 13 years since the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians released its <a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Beware of skin complications of newer antidiabetic agents

Posted on: 11/08/2015 - 19:47

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Each of the newer classes of antidiabetic medications – the DPP-IV inhibitors, GLP-1 agonists, and SGLT2 inhibitors – has its own characteristic cutaneous side effects, Dr. Justin...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Novel triple therapy in ITP provides enduring responses

Posted on: 11/08/2015 - 19:02

For patients with chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia, a three-drug regimen was associated with a high response rate and relapse-free survival, according to the results of a single-arm, phase IIb...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

AAIC: Age-related cognitive deficits differ by sex

Posted on: 11/08/2015 - 18:26

WASHINGTON – Age-related cognitive declines have a different presentation in women and in men. As men age they show a steeper decline, compared with women, in their ability to name words from a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

AAIC: Exercise program improves mild cognitive impairment

Posted on: 11/08/2015 - 14:42

WASHINGTON – A 3-month program of supervised aerobic exercise and strength training led to modest but statistically significant improvement in cognition in a pilot, single-center study that enrolled...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

AAIC: Primary care screening doubles dementia diagnosis rate

Posted on: 11/08/2015 - 14:20

WASHINGTON – A 7-minute screening tool nearly doubled the rate at which primary care physicians could identify elderly patients in their practices with dementia in a German study involving more than...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Yet another insurer demand: patient care notifications

Posted on: 10/08/2015 - 21:35

Some insurance companies recently started sending notifications about patient care. For example, one recently sent my boss a letter about one of his patients with rheumatoid arthritis, asking why the...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Intestinal obstruction risk increased in some childhood cancer survivors

Posted on: 10/08/2015 - 21:00

Childhood cancer survivors are at an increased risk for developing an intestinal obstruction requiring surgery (IOS) 5 or more years after the initial cancer diagnosis, according to a study based on...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Intestinal obstruction risk increased in some childhood cancer survivors

Posted on: 10/08/2015 - 21:00

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Malignancy risk persists into middle age for childhood cancer survivors

Posted on: 10/08/2015 - 21:00

The increased risk of malignancy following childhood cancer persists past the age of 40 years, according to an analysis of 3,171 members of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study published online Aug....

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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