News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 10, 2015
Integrating care for behavioral/mental problems into primary health care is beneficial for children and adolescents, as it has been shown to be for ad...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 10, 2015
Key clinical point: CSF markers may help differentiate Parkinson’s disease from other sources of parkinsonism.
Major finding: A pattern of h...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 6, 2015
Key clinical point: Limited resection is inferior to lobectomy for older patients with early-stage invasive NSCLC.
Major finding: Limited resectio...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Involved-field radiotherapy alone yields similar survival but fewer toxic effects than do other treatments for stage 1A nodula...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Intraperitoneal chemotherapy provides a clear survival benefit in stage III ovarian cancer but is still underused in real-worl...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 4, 2015
Key clinical point: A brief motivational intervention in the ED failed to reduce recurrent episodes of heavy drinking or intimate-partner violence...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 3, 2015
Key clinical point: Survivors of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma are twice as likely to develop melanoma as are survivors ...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: August 3, 2015
Key clinical point: Peripheral plasma levels of the CNS protein tau are chronically elevated after traumatic brain injury and correlate with the s...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 31, 2015
New AGA guidelines stress that identification of Lynch syndrome must improve because it is so underdiagnosed.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 27, 2015
Key clinical point: LVEF improves to greater than 35% in about a quarter of patients with heart failure who receive ICDs for primary prevention, a...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 27, 2015
Adding ezetimibe to atorvastatin boosted the regression of coronary plaque in patients with elevated cholesterol who had just undergone percutaneous c...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 22, 2015
Key clinical point: Personnel at most hospitals, particularly the lowest-performing hospitals, greatly overestimate their performance at giving st...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 21, 2015
Key clinical point: Pioglitazone did not increase the risk of bladder cancer significantly in this study, but an association still cannot be ruled...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 21, 2015
The antibiotic dicloxacillin appears to markedly decrease INR levels in patients taking warfarin.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: July 20, 2015
Key clinical point: ASCO compiled five recommendations to increase the number of older adults included in cancer studies.
Major finding: Key evide...
