News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 6, 2015
Cirrhosis nearly doubled among Veterans Affairs patients between 2001 and 2013, while cirrhosis-related mortality rose by about 50% and deaths from he...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 5, 2015
Patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed, influenza-associated pneumonia had a 57% lower odds of having received the influenza vaccine than con...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 5, 2015
About 3 in every 100,000 individuals developed a carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infection in 2012-2013, most of whom had previously been hosp...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 1, 2015
Key clinical point: The narrow-band method identified similar numbers of intraepithelial cancers in ulcerative colitis patients as white light, bu...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with IBD were about five to eight times more likely to die after emergency intestinal resection as opposed to electiv...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Colonoscope withdrawal times less than 6 minutes are associated with significantly higher rates of interval colorectal cancer....
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: October 1, 2015
Key clinical point: The Sendai and Fukuoka guidelines were equivalent when detecting advanced neoplasias among patients with pancreatic cystic les...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 30, 2015
Key clinical point:Brodalumab met all primary endpoints against ustekinumab and placebo in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
Majo...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 30, 2015
Key clinical point:Psoriasis was associated with a significantly increased risk of major depression in a large population-based U.S.
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 30, 2015
Key clinical point:Psoriasis was associated with a significantly increased risk of major depression in a large population-based U.S.
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 28, 2015
High levels of cardiac hormones and peptides predicted mortality in patients with first-time, as-yet-untreated cancer.
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 28, 2015
Cognitive behavior therapy significantly improved major depression but not self-care among patients with heart failure.
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 28, 2015
Metformin was associated with a small height increase among children in a meta-analysis.
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 25, 2015
Rigorous studies have not linked testosterone replacement therapy to heart attack or stroke, and the decision to prescribe TRT should be based on a fu...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: September 25, 2015
