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Simple smell test may predict donepezil response

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 13:15

ORLANDO – Predicting whether add-on donepezil will improve residual cognitive deficits in an elderly patient on adequate antidepressant therapy may be as plain as the nose on the patient’s face....

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

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Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

The number of children a woman has may affect her future risk of cardiovascular disease – and the mechanism may be subclinical atherosclerosis, data from the <link...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

The number of children a woman has may affect her future risk of cardiovascular disease – and the mechanism may be subclinical atherosclerosis, data from the <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Study highlights progress, challenges in nosocomial infections

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 21:40

Onein twenty-five hospitalized patients on any given day has an infection acquired from health care, and as many as one in nine of those will die. At a press briefing, Dr. Michael Bell discussed...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Prostate cancer screening fell in wake of trial results, task force recommendations

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 18:00

Routine screening for prostate cancer decreased in Ohio after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against it, with a more immediate and pronounced decrease in the urban/academic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Invasive cancer incidence highest in black men

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 17:20

Men had a 24% higher incidence of invasive cancer than women in 2010, and black men had the highest rate among men of all races/ethnicities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

FDA panel says blood test for colorectal cancer screening is safe, not effective

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 17:10

GAITHERSBURG, MD. – The Food and Drug Administration deemed the first-of-a-kind blood test to screen for colorectal cancer safe but not effective. At a <link...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Patient selection can keep the lid on esophagectomy costs

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 13:30

PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Cost and quality are not always synonymous, particularly when it comes to complex surgical procedures such as esophagectomy. A review of records on more than 6,700 patients who...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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