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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: July 7, 2014
Key clinical point: The presence of metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance may be a marker for more severe psoriatic arthritis.Major finding: 12...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: July 2, 2014
Key clinical point: There is no evidence of a treatment effect at 6 weeks with fluoroscopically guided epidural injections of glucocorticoids plus...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: July 1, 2014
Key clinical point: Despite the "strong scientific rationale and preclinical data," everolimus failed to improve outcomes in advanced HCC.
Major f...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 30, 2014
Major finding: Overall survival was 54% for anatomic segmentectomy and 60% for lobectomy, a nonsignificant difference; both locoregional recurrenc...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 30, 2014
Key clinical point: Don’t postpone surgery for esophageal cancer to perform chemoradiotherapy.Major finding: Median overall survival was 31....
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 25, 2014
Key clinical point: 24-hour Holter monitoring or conventional ECG monitoring is insufficient to detect AF in patients who had a cryptogenic stroke...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 24, 2014
Key clinical point: Tomosynthesis may reduce the need for repeat imaging to detect breast cancer.Major finding: The "recall" rate declined from 10...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 24, 2014
Key clinical point: Women, especially those with QRS durations of 130-139 msec, benefit more from CRT therapy than men do.Major finding: In women ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 24, 2014
Key clinical point: A combination of imaging techniques, which simultaneously assesses several processes involved in cancer development, achieved ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 23, 2014
Key clinical point: Racial disparity in colon cancer mortality may be due in part to biological differences in tumor type.Major finding: The preva...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 18, 2014
Key clinical point: Tofacitinib monotherapy provided better outcomes at 2 years than did methotrexate alone in patients who previously had not bee...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 18, 2014
Key clinical point: First trimester use of antidepressants does not significantly increase fetal cardiac malformation risk.Major finding: After ad...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 17, 2014
Key clinical point: Thrombolysis may be a therapeutic alternative to anticoagulation in some patients with stable, intermediate-risk pulmonary emb...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 17, 2014
Major finding: A total of 6.7% of patients who never took TNF-alpha antagonists developed cancer during follow-up, compared with 1.8% of patients ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: June 16, 2014
Key clinical point: Targeted promotion of colorectal screening can increase screening rates.Major finding: 82.2% of the intervention group complet...
