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Dose-related increase in mortality with antipsychotics in dementia

Posted on: 18/03/2015 - 15:00

Antipsychotics such as haloperidol and risperidone are associated with a significant and dose-related increase in mortality in elderly patients with d... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

NSAIDs’ colon cancer protection tied to three genetic variants

Posted on: 17/03/2015 - 15:37

The well-documented protective effect that aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exert against colon cancer has been linked to three geneti... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

NSAIDs’ colon cancer protection tied to three genetic variants

Posted on: 17/03/2015 - 15:37

The well-documented protective effect that aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exert against colon cancer has been linked to three geneti... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Apple’s ResearchKit

Posted on: 17/03/2015 - 13:49

Doctors have been conjecturing about how the new Apple Watch, with its spectacular fitness and wellness tracking features, will transform health care.... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Apple’s ResearchKit

Posted on: 17/03/2015 - 13:49

Doctors have been conjecturing about how the new Apple Watch, with its spectacular fitness and wellness tracking features, will transform health care.... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Only as good as the prep

Posted on: 17/03/2015 - 12:30

In the realm of screening routinely offered to our patients in primary care, colon cancer screening stands with cervical cancer screening with a grade... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Guideline recommends combination therapy for smoking cessation in cancer patients

Posted on: 16/03/2015 - 21:09

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published a new guideline on smoking cessation for cancer patients that recommends combining pharmacolog... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Novel HCV therapies found cost effective, with caveats

Posted on: 16/03/2015 - 21:00

Two different statistical models found that novel therapies for chronic HCV infection, particularly the combination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir, are ... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Stem cell divisions help dictate cancer risk

Posted on: 16/03/2015 - 16:33

The lifetime risk of many different types of cancer are correlated (0.81) with the total number of divisions of their tissue stem cells, a recent stud... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

MI survivors face higher cancer risk

Posted on: 15/03/2015 - 14:17

SAN DIEGO– The risk of developing cancer is significantly higher in survivors of an acute MI compared to the general population, according to a larg... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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