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Adding tomosynthesis improved mammography’s cancer detection

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 21:00

Adding tomosynthesis to screening digital mammography decreases the "recall" rate by 15% while increasing the cancer detection rate by 29%, according to a report published online June 25 in...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Women benefit from CRT at shorter QRS durations

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 20:25

Women with mild heart failure and left bundle branch block benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy at a shorter QRS duration – less than 150 milliseconds – than do men, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Calcium and vitamin D improve metabolic profile in gestational diabetes

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 23:00

Calcium and vitamin D can improve the metabolic profile of women with gestational diabetes mellitus, according to investigators in Iran who found significant reductions in fasting glucose, serum...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Phone-based intervention helped breast cancer patients lose weight, but key question remains

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 22:20

A telephone-based lifestyle intervention can have a significant effect on weight loss in overweight breast cancer survivors, according to a study that also highlights the dilemmas of funding large...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Phone-based intervention helped breast cancer patients lose weight, but key question remains

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 22:20

A telephone-based lifestyle intervention can have a significant effect on weight loss in overweight breast cancer survivors, according to a study that also highlights the dilemmas of funding large...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

USPSTF: Women smokers might benefit from AAA screening

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 22:00

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says that women between ages 65 and 75 years who have smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lives could benefit from one-time ultrasonography screening for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Tool predicts lymphoma, death in primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 19:20

The European League Against Rheumatism Sjögren’s Syndrome Disease Activity Index measured at the time of diagnosis predicted the development of lymphoma and death in Spanish patients with severe...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Giant-cell arteritis patients face high aortic aneurysm dissection risk

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 19:00

PARIS – The usual rule that the larger an aortic aneurysm grows the greater the risk it will undergo dissection or rupture doesn’t work in patients with giant-cell arteritis. Their aortic aneurysms...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA approves tedizolid for acute bacterial skin infections

Posted on: 21/06/2014 - 00:10

Tedizolid, an oxazolidinone antibacterial drug, has been approved as an intravenous and oral treatment for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections caused by gram positive bacteria, the...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Olmesartan can cause celiac disease mimicker

Posted on: 20/06/2014 - 20:35

CHICAGO – The antihypertensive agent olmesartan is associated with increased risk of a severe sprue-like enteropathy, as highlighted in a nationwide French cohort study. This olmesartan-related...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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