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Cancer patients with incidental VTE have high risk of recurrent thrombi

Posted on: 09/12/2014 - 17:15

SAN FRANCISCO – Unless there is a clear contraindication to anticoagulation therapy, cancer patients who have an incidental pulmonary embolism discovered during imaging studies should receive chronic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Ultrasound screening for dense breasts is high cost, offers little benefit

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 22:00

Supplemental screening ultrasonography would add substantial costs while providing little clinical benefit after a negative screening mammography in women with dense breasts, according to three...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Ultrasound screening for dense breasts is high cost, offers little benefit

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 22:00

Supplemental screening ultrasonography would add substantial costs while providing little clinical benefit after a negative screening mammography in women with dense breasts, according to three...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Vitamin D landscape marked by lack of consensus

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 21:14

If you’re stumped about what to tell patients who ask you if they should be adding supplemental vitamin D to their diet, you’re not alone. Speaker after speaker at a public conference on vitamin D...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Vitamin D landscape marked by lack of consensus

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 21:14

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

More activity, less television prolongs life in colorectal Ca

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 21:00

More exercise and less television were both associated with decreased all-cause mortality among older patients with colorectal cancer in a large, prospective cohort study, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

More activity, less television prolongs life in colorectal Ca

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 21:00

More exercise and less television were both associated with decreased all-cause mortality among older patients with colorectal cancer in a large, prospective cohort study, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Game-changing study could end exclusion for HIV-related lymphomas

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 20:17

SAN FRANCISCO – Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should be offered to patients with HIV-related lymphomas and treatment-responsive HIV infection, results from a new study...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Monitoring current threats: ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR), week 49/201408 Dec 2014

Posted on: 08/12/2014 - 16:23

The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report is a weekly bulletin intended for epidemiologists and health professionals in the area of communicable disease prevention and control. This issue covers the period 30 November–6 December 2014. -- Delivered by Feed43 service

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Secukinumab tames psoriatic arthritis in FUTURE 2 trial

Posted on: 07/12/2014 - 19:50

BOSTON – Secukinumab improved quality of life and symptoms in patients with psoriatic arthritis, regardless of whether they had received prior anti-tumor-necrosis factor therapy or were concurrently...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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