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Pancytopenia warning added to label of hepatitis C drug boceprevir

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 21:55

A warning about cases of pancytopenia linked to the use of the oral hepatitis C antiviral drug boceprevir has been added to the drug’s label, the Food and Drug Administration has announced. There...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Postpartum thrombosis risk high for 12 weeks

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 20:50

SAN DIEGO – The risk of thrombosis after giving birth remains significantly elevated for 12 weeks after delivery, twice as long as previously thought, an analysis of data on 1.7 million women...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Postpartum elevated thrombosis risk lasts 12 weeks

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 20:40

The risk of thrombosis in women giving birth for the first time was 10- to 11-fold higher in the first 6 weeks postpartum, but in a report presented at the International Stroke Conference, Dr. Hooman...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Sepsis less common, less deadly in pregnancy

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 18:00

SAN FRANCISCO – The incidence of severe sepsis was nearly five times lower and the risk of death from severe sepsis was 43% lower during pregnancy, compared with nonpregnant women, in a large...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

FDA panel votes against cangrelor approval for PCI, bridge indications

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 16:25

SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, citing numerous problems with cangrelor’s clinical trial program, has recommended against approval of the short-acting intravenous...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Prostate cancer death rate highest in Montana

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 15:20

Montana is expected to have the highest rate of prostate cancer deaths in the United States for 2014, and it will be more than twice as high as that of Texas, which should have the lowest rate, the...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Colchicine: Old drug with a new trick

Posted on: 12/02/2014 - 14:40

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Colchicine, a venerable drug Hippocrates proposed as a gout remedy some 2,400 years ago, shows fresh potential as a novel treatment for osteoarthritis. "I’m going out on a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Personalization keys vision of improved atrial fib care

Posted on: 12/02/2014 - 12:00

Atrial fibrillation is not a single disease, and specialists already have ways to distinguish one type from another and guide management. But new methods are emerging to better distinguish various...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Removing opposite breast cuts 20-year mortality 48% in BRCA mutation carriers

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 23:30

Among early-stage breast cancer patients who carry BRCA mutations, prophylactic mastectomy of the contralateral breast appears to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer within 20 years by 48%,...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

No new cardiovascular warnings needed for NSAIDs say FDA advisers

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 23:00

SILVER SPRING, MD. – There do not need to be major changes to the warning labels on prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, said a group of federal advisers on...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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