PHILADELPHIA – Receiving a flu shot cut the odds of influenza hospitalizations by 56% among older adults during the 2010-1011 flu season, surveillance data show.
Vaccine effectiveness was...
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...
Our relationship with vitamins and supplements may be approach-avoidance. On one hand, if they are beneficial and patients are motivated to take them, we do not complain. This is likely a marker of...
AMSTERDAM – Liberal coffee consumption was independently associated with a reduced risk of developing a second basal cell carcinoma in individuals who’ve already had a first in an analysis from the...
LAS VEGAS – Clinical roll-out of a recently approved first-in-class implantable pulmonary artery measurement device ushers in a true breakthrough in the management of heart failure patients, experts...
About 70% of older adults with complicated grief improved with targeted exposure-based counseling, compared with 32% who underwent interpersonal therapy, according to <a...
All adults who are 65 years or older should receive 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) routinely in series with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), according to a...
WASHINGTON – Options and opportunity are the keys to navigating the 2014-2015 flu season, according to a panel of experts at a press conference sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious...
LAS VEGAS – Up to 30% of patients diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica actually have a different disease, according to Dr. Eric L. Matteson.
The proximal pain and stiffness syndrome, which is a...
