News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 29, 2015
Key clinical point: Using more than the recommended five drugs to treat multidrug-resistant TB increased the cure rate by as much as 65%.
Major fi...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 16, 2015
Key clinical point: In Germany, almost all of the marked increase in the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement occurred among patients uns...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 16, 2015
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 16, 2015
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 15, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with psoriatic arthritis who don’t respond to or cannot tolerate two different anti-TNF agents are likely to re...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 15, 2015
Key clinical point: Autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation doesn’t induce sustained remission of refractory Crohn’s diseas...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 14, 2015
Key clinical point: Intracerebral hemorrhage related to new oral anticoagulants frequently involves hematoma expansion and doesn’t appear to...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 9, 2015
According to a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, endobronchial valves improved pulmonary function, exercise capacity, and quality...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 9, 2015
Mass drug administration, particularly with ivermectin, controls scabies and its burdensome complications in endemic regions of the world, according t...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 9, 2015
Switching to the one-step screen for gestational diabetes, recommended by the International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group, fai...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 8, 2015
Key clinical point: The prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms was 28.8% (range, 20.9%-43.2%) among residents in a meta-analysis of 54 st...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 7, 2015
Different once-weekly GLP-1RAs yield appreciably different effects on HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose, body weight, and nausea but very similar effects ...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 7, 2015
Key clinical point: Behavioral, not just medical, strategies are needed to curb transmission in HIV-positive young gay men.
Major finding: Among r...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 4, 2015
Key clinical point: A hospital’s rate of postoperative C.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: December 2, 2015
Adding lixisenatide to usual care failed to prevent major cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who had a recent ACS.
