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Strength of morning RA symptoms are correlated with disease’s activity

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 22:17

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients’ severity of morning stiffness and morning pain have stronger correlations with their disease’s activity than d... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

ELCC: NSCLC mutation testing highlights ctDNA’s limitationsvitals

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 21:46

GENEVA – The tests widely available today that use a cancer patient’s tumor DNA that circulates in the blood to detect a treatment-altering lung c... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Oophorectomy improves survival after breast cancer in BRCA1 carriers

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 16:00

Women with breast cancer and BRCA1 mutations had a lower risk of mortality if they underwent oophorectomy, and the benefit was apparent beyond age 50,... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Oophorectomy improves survival after breast cancer in BRCA1 carriers

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 16:00

Women with breast cancer and BRCA1 mutations had a lower risk of mortality if they underwent oophorectomy, and the benefit was apparent beyond age 50,... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Teens who tan indoors do it often

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 22:12

More than one-third of teens who undergo indoor tanning do so frequently, according to data from a survey of 1,850 public high school students from 27... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Alcoholic hepatitis: Pentoxifylline, prednisolone don’t improve survival

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 22:00

Neither pentoxifylline nor prednisolone reduced 28-day mortality, 90-day mortality, or 1-year mortality among adults with alcoholic hepatitis in a mul... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

New 9-valent HPV vaccine is efficacious, well tolerated

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 19:50

CHICAGO – The 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has high efficacy for preventing dis... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

AACR: Metformin survival benefit shaky in pancreatic cancer

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 18:31

A detailed survival analysis questions the rationale behind use of the diabetes drug metformin to improve pancreatic cancer survival. Several epidemi... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ACCP and CTS issue joint guideline on COPD exacerbations

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 14:59

The American College of Chest Physicians and the Canadian Thoracic Society have issued new recommendations for reducing the risk of acute exacerbation... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Don’t forget folate for women on antiepilepsy drugs

Posted on: 21/04/2015 - 21:40

WASHINGTON – Only 20% of women of childbearing age taking antiepileptic drugs also received a folate prescription, a small study revealed – but a ... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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