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VIDEO: Hepatitis C burden could wallop Medicare

Posted on: 09/11/2014 - 22:27

BOSTON – The graying of America will add at least 1 million more patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection into the Medicare system between 2010 and 2024. “If all of these patients were...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Epidemiological update: outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa07 Nov 2014

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 22:08

Since December 2013 and as of 2 November 2014, WHO has reported 13 042 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in six affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain and the United States of America) and two previously affected countries (Nigeria and... more

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Soy isoflavones safe in postmenopausal women, data from 3-year trial showed

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 21:12

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Soy isoflavones are safe for postmenopausal women to take long term, having no treatment effect on endometrial thickness, reproductive hormones, or thyroid function, the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Risks for anastomotic leak after colectomy identified

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 19:02

SAN FRANCISCO– A large retrospective study identified risk factors for anastomotic leak within 30 days of colectomy. The analysis of data on 13,684 patients looked at a multicenter cohort, compared...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Risks for anastomotic leak after colectomy identified

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 19:02

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

U.S. C. difficile mortality jumped sevenfold 1999-2008

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 18:11

VIENNA – U.S. deaths from Clostridium difficile infection jumped roughly sevenfold from 1999 to 2008, but in the ensuing years (2009-2012), remained stable at about the level first reached in...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Chronic inflammatory disease patients at greater risk of major CV events

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 16:45

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or psoriasis are at an increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events when compared with the general population, according to findings...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Chronic inflammatory disease patients at greater risk of major CV events

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 16:45

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

FDA panel votes against panobinostat as add-on therapy for multiple myeloma

Posted on: 07/11/2014 - 11:34

SILVER SPRING, MD. – The majority of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that the risk-benefit profile of panobinostat as add-on treatment to bortezomib and dexamethasone did not...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

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Posted on: 06/11/2014 - 21:38

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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