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Doxorubicin, radiation doses predict heart risk in lymphoma survivors

Posted on: 14/07/2015 - 13:22

Adult lymphoma survivors who were treated with autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation had a greater than sixfold increased risk of left ventricular systolic dysfunction compared with...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Elective colectomy topped medical therapy for advanced ulcerative colitis

Posted on: 13/07/2015 - 22:00

For adults with advanced ulcerative colitis (UC) older than 50 years of age, elective colectomy offered a significantly higher survival rate than did medical therapy, according to a retrospective...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Morbidities linger at least 20 years for young adult cancer survivors

Posted on: 13/07/2015 - 21:26

Survivors of young adult cancers had 1.5 times more hospitalizations than did controls in a population-based study spanning 20 years, Dr. Devon P. Richardson and coauthors at the University of...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

WCD: Touch avoidance is a new dimension of psoriatic impairment

Posted on: 13/07/2015 - 18:55

VANCOUVER – Touch impairment is an important but largely unappreciated aspect of quality-of-life impairment in psoriasis, Dr. April Armstrong said at the World Congress of Dermatology. “Touch...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Summary of Public health threats, CDTR week 28/201513 Jul 2015

Posted on: 13/07/2015 - 13:53

This issue covers the period 5 to 11 July 2015 and includes updates on Schistosoma haematobium, West Nile fever, Ebola virus disease and Middle East respiratory syndrome – coronavirus (MERS CoV). -- Delivered by Feed43 service

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

WCD: Six new technologies will change dermatology practice

Posted on: 12/07/2015 - 21:25

VANCOUVER – Six developments – daylight photodynamic therapy, body sculpting, better laser treatments for tattoo removal, marketing of home-use fractionated lasers for skin rejuvenation, novel lasers...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Medicare adds HPV test for cervical cancer screening

Posted on: 10/07/2015 - 20:41

Medicare officials have added the human papillomavirus test to its list of covered services for cervical cancer screening. In a national coverage <a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

HHS finalizes religious exemptions in ACA contraception mandate

Posted on: 10/07/2015 - 20:06

The Obama administration is aiming to give employers with a religious objection an easier way to opt out of providing birth control under the Affordable Care Act, while also preserving no-cost access...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Erosive hand disease likely ‘more severe form of OA’

Posted on: 10/07/2015 - 18:47

ROME – Erosive hand osteoarthritis (OA) is probably a more severe form of the disease, rather than a separate clinical entity, a team of Norwegian researchers has suggested. Dr. Alexander Mathiessen...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Erosive hand disease likely ‘more severe form of OA’

Posted on: 10/07/2015 - 18:47

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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