Compared with care on a general hospital ward, ICU care improved survival without raising costs significantly in a study of more than 1 million Medicare patients hospitalized with pneumonia,...
Forgoing androgen deprivation therapy cuts rather than raises overall and cardiac mortality in certain patients with prostate cancer, depending on their comorbidities, according to a Research Letter...
Recurrence rates of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS ) have declined significantly over 3 decades, with the improvements likely because of better screening and pathologic assessment, investigators...
Recurrence rates of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS ) have declined significantly over 3 decades, with the improvements likely because of better screening and pathologic assessment, investigators...
Certain combinations of complications during pregnancy raise the mother’s risk of premature cardiovascular disease–related death decades later by as much as sevenfold, according to a report published...
The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals about active public health threats. This issue covers the period 13 to 19 September 2015 and includes updates on West Nile fever, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and MERS.
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SAN DIEGO – Early wound closure prior to hospital discharge after surgical debridement of infected diabetic foot ulcers yields higher ulcer healing rates and a shorter time to healing, compared with...
It’s okay in most cases for gout patients to be on thiazide diuretics or low-dose aspirin, so long as hypouricemic therapy is adjusted as needed, according to rheumatologist and Cleveland Clinic...
Efforts underway to tailor psoriatic arthritis treatments to the various tissues involved in the pathogenesis of the disease could optimize therapeutic approaches, Dr. Iain McInnes said at the annual...