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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 19, 2015
Key clinical point: Adding cetuximab to standard FOLFIRI chemotherapy is beneficial for RAS wild-type colorectal cancer but not for other RAS tumo...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 19, 2015
Key clinical point: Breast cancers that overexpress certain immune function genes are much more likely to respond to trastuzumab therapy than canc...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 15, 2015
Key clinical point: Among patients who present to the ED with acute HF, blood glucose levels predict 30-day mortality and other outcomes.
Major fi...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 14, 2015
Key clinical point: Abuse of prescription opioid drugs may be declining.
Major finding: According to all five RADARS measures, opioid abuse contin...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 14, 2015
Key clinical point: Abuse of prescription opioid drugs may be declining.
Major finding: According to all five RADARS measures, opioid abuse contin...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 13, 2015
Key clinical point: Adults with asthma are at higher risk for developing obstructive sleep apnea than are those without asthma.
Major finding: Twe...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 12, 2015
Key clinical point: The oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib shows “exceptional” activity against thymic carcinoma.
Major finding:...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 12, 2015
Key clinical point: Most older patients with diabetes who are in poor health are given insulin or sulfonylureas to achieve tight glycemic control,...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 12, 2015
Key clinical point: Most older patients with diabetes who are in poor health are given insulin or sulfonylureas to achieve tight glycemic control,...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 7, 2015
Key clinical point: Adjuvant therapy with paclitaxel plus trastuzumab yielded a 3-year recurrence rate of < 2% in stage I HER2-positive breast ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 6, 2015
Key clinical point: Obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery had lower mortality at 5 and 10 years, compared with matched control subjects.
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News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 6, 2015
Key clinical point: Intensive therapy improves long-term mortality in type 1 diabetes.
Major finding: Mortality per 100,000 patient-years was mode...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Intra-articular treatments appear more effective than oral therapies for knee OA, but that may be due their greater placebo ef...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Greater consumption of whole-grain foods is associated with lower total and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Major finding: E...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Greater consumption of whole-grain foods is associated with lower total and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Major finding: E...
