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Metabolic monitoring suboptimal for dementia patients taking antipsychotics

Posted on: 14/04/2015 - 15:26

NEW ORLEANS – Elderly dementia patients who take antipsychotics are significantly less likely to have guideline-concordant metabolic checkups than a... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Behavioral symptoms in dementia need a global touch

Posted on: 14/04/2015 - 13:26

NEW ORLEANS–An individualized, step-by-step plan is the best way to treat psychiatric and behavioral problems that might arise in patients with deme... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

SSIs a factor in postop colon cancer survival

Posted on: 14/04/2015 - 12:38

HOUSTON – Surgical-site infections occurring in patients who underwent curative resection for localized colon cancer were associated with worse over... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Chemotherapy and stem-cell transplantation combination appears safe

Posted on: 13/04/2015 - 21:00

In a population of patients with hematologic malignancies who refuse blood product transfusions, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by autologous s... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Summary of public health threats, CDTR week 15/201513 Apr 2015

Posted on: 13/04/2015 - 16:08

The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals about active public health threats. This issue covers the period 5 to 11 April 2015 and includes updates on influenza A(H5N1), Ebola virus disease epidemic – West Africa and... more

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Cerebrospinal fluid marker predicts brain atrophy

Posted on: 13/04/2015 - 16:00

Baseline levels of visinin-like protein 1 in the cerebrospinal fluid were significant predictors of whole brain and regional brain atrophy, based on d... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Teenage tattoos are most often regretted

Posted on: 13/04/2015 - 15:45

SAN FRANCISCO – The younger people are when they get a tattoo, the more likely they are to regret it later, according to a survey of 501 people in t... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Neonatal abstinence syndrome risk varies with modifiable factors

Posted on: 13/04/2015 - 05:01

Infants born to women taking prescription opioids were more likely to have neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) if their mothers smoked tobacco or took ... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Apremilast meets psoriasis endpoints at week 32

Posted on: 12/04/2015 - 21:04

SAN FRANCISCO – Apremilast met its primary endpoint at week 32 with no new or serious safety signals among patients with moderate to severe plaque p... More »

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Mast cells predict hypersensitive reactions in rituximab desensitization

Posted on: 12/04/2015 - 19:23

HOUSTON – For rituximab patients undergoing desensitization, mast cell degranulation is a more effective predictor of hypersensitive reactions (HSR)... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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