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U.K. ahead of U.S.A. in cancer survivorship planning

Posted on: 21/02/2014 - 14:00

BRUSSELS – Cancer survivorship planning in the United Kingdom is ahead of the United States and the rest of Europe with the recent rollout of a model care plan for cancer patients, along with a guide...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Are those musculoskeletal symptoms psoriatic arthritis?

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 22:05

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Dermatologists are in a unique position to identify psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis whose musculoskeletal symptoms may be too subtle for them to mention to an...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Are those musculoskeletal symptoms psoriatic arthritis?

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 22:05

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Dermatologists are in a unique position to identify psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis whose musculoskeletal symptoms may be too subtle for them to mention to an...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

CDC: Younger adults least likely to be vaccinated and most likely to be hard hit by flu

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:45

So far, the 2013-2014 influenza season has been hardest on young and middle-age adults, with 61% of flu hospitalizations occurring in the 18- to 64-year-old age group, the Centers for Disease Control...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Coffee Break 2: What did you learn at the meeting?

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:25

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – Our editor, Heidi Splete, catches up with attendees at the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar to find out what they learned at the meeting that they will take back to their...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Thyroid cancer rise mostly overdiagnosis

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:10

The incidence of thyroid cancer has nearly tripled in the United States since the 1970s. However, this is mainly an epidemic of diagnosis, researchers reported. Small papillary cancers are not...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Continuous AF monitors raise questions about when to intervene

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 18:05

SAN DIEGO – Medtronic’s Reveal XT heart monitor implant detected atrial fibrillation missed by older techniques in a randomized trial. The company’s North American and European <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Medicare to cover cardiac rehab for some HF patients

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 14:20

Medicare will begin covering cardiac rehabilitation for patients with stable, chronic heart failure with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 35% or less. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Multiple gut surgeries tip scale against laparoscopic gall bladder surgery

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 14:00

NAPLES, FLA. – Only fewer prior abdominal surgeries predicted successful laparoscopic gall bladder surgery after percutaneous cholecystostomy tube placement in a review of 245 patients. Notably, the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Video intervention inspires men to undergo skin exams

Posted on: 19/02/2014 - 21:45

Video interventions on the importance of undergoing clinical skin examinations may increase melanoma discovery rates, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published online Feb. 19...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

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