News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 21, 2015
Key clinical point: Surgeons seem to have heeded stronger language from FDA about the risks of using transvaginal surgical mesh.
Major finding: Th...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 20, 2015
Key clinical point: Older age, female sex, preoperative azotemia, chronic steroid use, preoperative respiratory failure, and coagulopathy predicte...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 14, 2015
Mortality-based quality measures that do not account for do-not-resuscitate orders paint a skewed picture of hospital performance, said authors of a n...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 14, 2015
Contrary to reports that a relative few physicians prescribe most opioids, many primary care providers and specialists prescribe such painkillers to M...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 9, 2015
Key clinical point: Radiographic hip osteoarthritis correlates poorly with hip pain, even among older patients with a high index of suspicion for ...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 3, 2015
Key clinical point: Tocilizumab was associated with a markedly increased rate of lower gastrointestinal perforation among patients with rheumatoid...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis increases the risk of B-cell lymphoma and death in patients with primary Sjögren’s synd...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Patterns of antibody activity against the RA33 autoantigen challenge the idea that citrullination is central to the pathology ...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with psoriatic diseases have high rates of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors that often go untreated, based on t...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 1, 2015
High serum insulin and leptin levels were significantly associated with Barrett’s esophagus, according to authors of a meta-analysis of nine observati...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 1, 2015
Researchers detected circulating tumor cells in the portal venous blood of all patients with pancreaticobiliary cancer, but in the peripheral blood...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: December 1, 2015
Baseline exposure to an immunomodulator did not improve the odds of clinical response or remission when starting anti–tumor necrosis factor t...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: November 30, 2015
Key clinical point: Filgotinib appeared effective and safe as monotherapy or in combination with methotrexate in two phase IIb trials of patients ...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: November 25, 2015
Key clinical point: Common genes seem to underlie the genetic risk for schizophrenia and decreases in white matter integrity, especially in the fr...
News Author: Amy Karon Publish date: November 24, 2015
Exposure to biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs did not increase the overall risk of lymphoma among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in...
