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Open TAA repair surpasses TEVAR survival

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 16:46

CHICAGO – Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms confers an immediate but short-lived survival advantage over open repair that completely disappears and then reverses 4.5 years after...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

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Adjuvant capecitabine adds no advantage to bisphosphonate in elderly breast cancer patients

Posted on: 12/12/2014 - 14:03

SAN ANTONIO – The combination of capecitabine plus the bisphosphonate ibandronate didn’t improve disease-free survival in elderly women with moderate- or high-risk breast cancers. After 5 years,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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Adding terlipressin didn’t help hepatorenal syndrome

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 22:40

BOSTON – Treating patients with hepatorenal syndrome type 1 for up to 14 days using terlipressin plus albumin rather than albumin alone did not improve the chances of confirmed reversal of...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

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North America has highest rate of obesity-related cancers

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:08

For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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VIDEO: High TILs associated with less efficacy from trastuzumab

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 21:01

SAN ANTONIO – Know your patient’s number: Dr. Edith A. Perez of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., explains in a video interview how the level of stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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FDA warns of potentially fatal skin reaction with ziprasidone

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 20:09

The Food and Drug Administration is warning that the atypical antipsychotic ziprasidone (Geodon) may be associated with a rare but potentially fatal skin reaction. The agency issued <a...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

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Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Oncology

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Pembrolizumab shows efficacy in advanced triple-negative breast cancer patients

Posted on: 11/12/2014 - 14:59

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

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Osteoporosis medication use down in older women

Posted on: 10/12/2014 - 22:27

Even as the number of women aged 50 years and older continues to rise, the percentage who are taking osteoporosis medications has fallen by one-third since 2004-2005, the Agency for Healthcare...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

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Diet, exercise reduced portal hypertension in obese cirrhotic patients

Posted on: 10/12/2014 - 19:56

BOSTON – A 16-week diet and exercise program reduced body weight and portal pressure in a prospective pilot study of 50 obese patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Twenty-six patients...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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