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Difficult-to-clean ERCP duodenoscopes linked to serious infections

Posted on: 20/02/2015 - 14:12

The Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals and the public about the association with duodenoscopes and the transmission of... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Ask patients about metal-on-metal hip implants

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 22:16

MAUI, HAWAII – Rheumatologists and other providers need to ask patients if they’ve had metal-on-metal hip implants. That goes for hip resurfacin... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

AUDIO: Chronically ill patients benefit from psychiatric care

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 19:46

As the director of the Visceral Inflammation and Pain Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, psychiatrist Eva Szigethy has been instru... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Never inject epinephrine in the fingers or toes?

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 18:23

A 30-year-old woman cuts her finger on a glass jar. She goes to the clinic and needs to have sutures on her right ring finger. What would you recommen... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

More cancer patients surviving longer, but age-based disparities remain

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 18:13

Survival rates overall for cancer patients are higher now than 20 years ago, though younger patients are faring significantly better than older ones f... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Uterine cancer low in myomectomy with power morcellation

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 16:00

The prevalence of uterine cancer was 0.09% among women who underwent myomectomy with electric power morcellation, according to the results of a large ... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Mortality similar for intermediate- and low-risk prostate cancer

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 16:00

Men with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer could be considered for active surveillance, say the authors of a study, published in JAMA Oncolo... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Uterine cancer low in myomectomy with power morcellation

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 16:00

The prevalence of uterine cancer was 0.09% among women who underwent myomectomy with electric power morcellation, according to the results of a large ... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

How to halt ‘a heart attack of the finger’

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 14:13

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Persistent, widespread, intense ischemic pain in the vicinity of a digital ulcer in a patient with secondary Raynaud’s phenomeno... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

How to halt ‘a heart attack of the finger’

Posted on: 19/02/2015 - 14:13

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Persistent, widespread, intense ischemic pain in the vicinity of a digital ulcer in a patient with secondary Raynaud’s phenomeno... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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