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VIDEO: How the latest topical antifungals are working for patients

Posted on: 30/10/2014 - 21:13

LAS VEGAS – The latest topical treatments “are going to change the way we treat onychomycosis,” Dr. David Pariser said at the Skin Disease Education Foundation’s annual Las Vegas dermatology...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

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The dilemma of using drugs of questionable benefit

Posted on: 30/10/2014 - 19:10

Recently, an article in JAMA Internal Medicine suggested that more than 50% of nursing home patients with advanced dementia are on “medications of questionable benefit.” The <a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Postdiagnosis imaging common in thyroid cancer

Posted on: 30/10/2014 - 17:01

CORONADO, CALIF.– Today’s clinicians are ordering more postdiagnosis imaging tests in patients with thyroid cancer than they did in the early 1990s, results from the largest study of its kind...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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New onychomycosis drugs show similar success and side effects

Posted on: 30/10/2014 - 16:00

LAS VEGAS – The latest topical therapies for onychomycosis are strong enough to penetrate nail polish, but patients report few side effects. “New topical antifungals have improved the challenge of...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Androgen-deprivation therapy linked to cardiac death

Posted on: 29/10/2014 - 17:18

Androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer may increase the risk of cardiac death among men who have congestive heart failure or who have experienced a previous myocardial infarction, a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Brain changes identified in chronic fatigue syndrome

Posted on: 29/10/2014 - 04:01

Imaging to assess brain microstructure identified increased fractional anisotropy in the anterior right arcuate fasciculus of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, which was not present in age- and...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: SERMs move beyond osteoporosis, breast cancer prevention

Posted on: 28/10/2014 - 20:19

HONOLULU– Uses for selective estrogen receptor modulators have grown beyond prevention of breast cancer or osteoporosis to treatment of postmenopausal symptoms. <a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: More gonadotropin, fewer live births

Posted on: 28/10/2014 - 17:59

SAN FRANCISCO– The higher the dose of gonadotropin for ovarian stimulation, the lower the live birth rate, a retrospective study of 541,967 cycles of assisted reproductive technology showed. The...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Ovarian function is exciting possible CV risk marker

Posted on: 28/10/2014 - 17:46

HONOLULU– A woman’s ovarian “clock” is dissociated from her general health, according to widely accepted thinking – but a new study has suggested the opposite. That study showed greater...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Ovarian aging may be tip-off on cardiovascular risk

Posted on: 28/10/2014 - 15:45

HONOLULU – Women with greater ovarian reserve had lower cardiovascular risk in a prospective study of 1,092 healthy, ovulating women aged 25-45 years, 250 of whom were followed for 3-5...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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