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HFPEF’s diverse features pose management and trial challenges

Posted on: 08/03/2014 - 06:00

When the highly-anticipated results from the TOPCAT trial reported last November failed to show a statistically significant efficacy benefit from spironolactone treatment in patients with heart...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

FDA issues warning about using doripenem for ventilator-associated pneumonia

Posted on: 07/03/2014 - 22:00

When used to treat ventilator-associated pneumonia, the antibacterial drug doripenem is linked to a greater risk of mortality and lower clinical cure rates compared with imipenem and cilastatin for...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Group issues recommendations for genetic susceptibility testing for carbamazepine skin reactions

Posted on: 07/03/2014 - 19:10

Genetic testing for alleles that affect histocompatibility should be the rule for patients who initiate the drug carbamazepine, according to new recommendations issued by the Canadian...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Early study: Potential ‘functional cure’ for AIDS?

Posted on: 07/03/2014 - 17:45

By tinkering with a gene involved with the entry of HIV into cells, investigators have developed what they call a potential "functional cure" for HIV/AIDS. The therapy is designed to keep...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Medicare proposes coverage for hepatitis C screening

Posted on: 06/03/2014 - 20:35

Medicare officials propose to cover screening for hepatitis C virus for adults at high risk of infection as well as a one-time screening for Baby Boomers. The plan, announced in <link...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Risk of condomless sex low if HIV-positive partner is well controlled on ART

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 21:50

Public health experts do not condone the practice, but it appears that the risk of transmission from an HIV-positive person to an uninfected sex partner during condomless sex is low if the infected...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Colchicine may provide potent cardiac protection

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 20:30

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Evidence from three observational studies suggests colchicine has a strong protective effect against cardiovascular events in gout patients. These data add to mounting evidence...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Colchicine may provide potent cardiac protection

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 20:30

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Evidence from three observational studies suggests colchicine has a strong protective effect against cardiovascular events in gout patients. These data add to mounting evidence...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

HIV-1 has gained virulence over the course of the epidemic

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 19:15

Even as antiretroviral therapies began making inroads into the AIDS epidemic, the virulence of HIV-1 increased and the time from seroconversion to a significant CD4-cell drop was cut in half,...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Polyarteritis nodosa gene discovery raises new possibilities for field

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 19:00

Autosomal recessive mutations in the gene CECR1 cause an inflammatory vasculopathy with a highly varied clinical presentation that often meets the criteria for polyarteritis nodosa and can occur with...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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