News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 16, 2015
Key clinical point: Screening colonoscopies with higher adenoma detection rates are associated with lower rates of colorectal cancer and lower CRC...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 16, 2015
Key clinical point: Antibiotic therapy was not noninferior to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis, but it averted surgery in a clear majo...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 15, 2015
Allowing obese patients to choose between a low-carbohydrate or a low-fat diet based on their food preferences does not improve weight loss.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 10, 2015
Key clinical point: Thrombectomy with a stent retriever reduced poststroke disability in patients with occlusion of the proximal anterior circulat...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 9, 2015
Key clinical point: Clinicians have only modestly adopted novel oral anticoagulants into real-world clinical practice.
Major finding: Early adopti...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 9, 2015
Hospitalizations for acute gastroenteritis in children aged 5 years and younger plummeted after routine rotavirus vaccination was implemented in 2006,...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 8, 2015
Key clinical point: Newly developed agents nab-paclitaxel and ixabepilone both failed to outperform paclitaxel against advanced breast cancer.
Maj...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 8, 2015
Key clinical point: Triple-agent bortezomib-based therapy offered no survival advantage over a double-agent regimen in elderly patients with multi...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 4, 2015
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 4, 2015
Key clinical point: The annual incidence of basal cell carcinoma is estimated to be 2 million in the United States.
Major finding: The annual inci...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 4, 2015
Key clinical point: The annual incidence of basal cell carcinoma is estimated to be 2 million in the United States.
Major finding: The annual inci...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 3, 2015
Key clinical point: High-flow oxygen through a nasal cannula reduced 90-day mortality in patients with nonhypercapnic acute hypoxemic respiratory ...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 3, 2015
Tight glycemic control does not save lives.
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Exposure to SSRI therapy in the last trimester may raise the risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, but onl...
News Author: Mary Ann Moon Publish date: June 1, 2015
Repeat visits to the emergency department are far more common than reported previously.
