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Quality of life gains achieved with comprehensive disease control in RA

Posted on: 28/08/2014 - 17:05

Comprehensive disease control in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with meaningful benefits such as short- and long-term improvements in quality of life, pain, fatigue, and work attendance, a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Majority of cancer patients with depression untreated; integrated collaborative care found ‘strikingly’ effective

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 23:30

Approximately 75% of cancer patients with major depression are not receiving treatment for their depression, according to an analysis of data from more than 21,000 patients. However, a novel...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Surveillance questioned after low-risk colorectal adenoma removal

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 22:00

Patients in Norway who underwent removal of low-risk colorectal adenomas but did not get further colonoscopic surveillance showed a 25% lower risk of death from colorectal cancer 8 years later,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Surveillance questioned after low-risk colorectal adenoma removal

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 22:00

Patients in Norway who underwent removal of low-risk colorectal adenomas but did not get further colonoscopic surveillance showed a 25% lower risk of death from colorectal cancer 8 years later,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Photodynamic therapy clears thin AKs better than cryotherapy

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 21:00

Thin actinic keratoses on the face or scalp were 14% more likely to clear completely in patients treated with photodynamic therapy, compared with cryotherapy, in a meta-analysis of four studies...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Open surgery for 34% of inpatient breast biopsies

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 17:20

Open breast biopsy accounted for 34% of breast biopsies in 25,965 U.S. inpatients between 2008 and 2010, a retrospective study found. The finding suggests that minimally invasive breast biopsy...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Open surgery for 34% of inpatient breast biopsies

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 17:20

Open breast biopsy accounted for 34% of breast biopsies in 25,965 U.S. inpatients between 2008 and 2010, a retrospective study found. The finding suggests that minimally invasive breast biopsy...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Kegel exercises

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 14:55

The prevalence of urinary incontinence is 17%-55% among older women and 12%-42% among younger and middle-aged women. Only 45% of women with at least weekly symptoms seek medical care to address their...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Successful bariatric surgery also may improve urinary incontinence

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 14:20

WASHINGTON – The majority of obese women who had urinary incontinence before bariatric surgery had complete or near-complete resolution of symptoms for up to 3 years after surgery in a study of more...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Field therapy preferred when treating actinic keratoses

Posted on: 27/08/2014 - 14:00

VANCOUVER, B.C. – In the clinical opinion of Dr. Mariusz Sapijaszko, treating actinic keratosis without field therapy creates a disadvantage "because this is not an individual lesion...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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