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Prostate cancer: Men with comorbidity may be better off with no ADT

Posted on: 22/09/2015 - 16:00

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...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ICU care improves survival without raising costs

Posted on: 22/09/2015 - 16:00

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,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Mandatory prescriber training now available for flibanserin

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 23:42

Physicians can now complete the training and paperwork required to prescribe flibanserin (Addyi, Sprout...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

DCIS recurrences have declined significantly

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 22:00

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...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

DCIS recurrences have declined significantly

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 22:00

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...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Pregnancy complications predict mother’s premature CVD death

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 21:00

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...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Summary of Public health threats, CDTR week 38/201521 Sep 2015

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 17:23

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. --... more

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Diabetic foot ulcer: Early closure post debridement best

Posted on: 21/09/2015 - 16:58

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...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Aspirin, hydrochlorothiazide okay in gout

Posted on: 19/09/2015 - 22:30

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...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Tissue-based treatment could improve psoriatic arthritis outcomes

Posted on: 19/09/2015 - 19:00

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...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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