Mary Ann Moon

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SSRIs During Pregnancy May Restrict Fetal Head Growth

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: March 5, 2012

Major Finding: Children born to women using SSRIs were twice as likely to be born preterm as were controls. The absolute rates of preterm birth we...

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Telephone Intervention Programs Fail to Cut Medicare Costs

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: March 1, 2012

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Amantadine Speeds Return to Consciousness After Brain Injury

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 29, 2012

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Nicotine Patch Found Ineffective During Pregnancy

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 29, 2012

Major Finding: At delivery, the rate of abstinence from smoking was 9.4% among women who had used nicotine-replacement patches for at least 1 mont...

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Stents Don't Surpass Pills in Stable CAD

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 27, 2012

Major Finding: Compared with patients with stable CAD who had PCI with stent placement , those who had optimal medical therapy showed no significa...

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Colonoscopy With Adenoma Removal Cut Colorectal Cancer Deaths By 53%

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 22, 2012

Major Finding: After a median follow-up of 16 years, colorectal cancer mortality was 53% lower in patients who had undergone colonoscopy with remo...

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Fecal Immunochemical Test Found Cancers, Missed Precancerous Adenomas

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 22, 2012

Major Finding: In the intention-to-screen analysis, colorectal cancer was detected in 0.1% of patients assigned to screening by colonoscopy and al...

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New Vemurafenib Data Highlight Long-Term Melanoma Survival

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 22, 2012

Major Finding: The overall response rate to vemurafenib was 53%, and median overall survival was 16 months.Data Source: The multicenter phase II c...

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PCV13 Works Best Against Pneumococcal Disease in Adults

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 21, 2012

Major Finding: Substituting PCV13 for PPSV23 would cost $28,900 per quality-adjusted life-year, while staying with PPSV23 would cost $34,000 per q...

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Painless MI in Younger Women More Deadly

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 21, 2012

Major Finding: Younger women with MI who presented without chest pain had significantly greater hospital mortality than did younger men without ch...

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Screen Open-Airway Surgery Patients for MRSA

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 21, 2012

Major Finding: The overall rate of MRSA colonization was 33%, but no MRSA infections developed in the screened and treated carriers; rates of any ...

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Prophylactic Semuloparin Cuts Rate of VTE in Cancer Patients

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 15, 2012

Major Finding: VTE occurred in 1.2% of cancer patients taking semuloparin, which was significantly lower than the 3.4% rate in the placebo group.D...

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Post-MI Stem Cell Therapy Improves Cardiac Function

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 14, 2012

Major Finding: Autologous bone marrow-derived intracardiac stem-cell therapy after acute MI significantly improves left ventricular ejection fract...

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Amoxicillin No Better Than Placebo for Rhinosinusitis

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 14, 2012

Major Finding: Symptom improvement at 3 days was reported in 37% of the amoxicillin group and 34% of the placebo group.

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Stem Cell Therapy Prompts 'Unprecedented' Myocardial Regeneration After MI

Author:: Mary Ann Moon

Publish date: February 13, 2012

Major Finding: Patients who received stem cell infusions showed an 8% absolute decrease in myocardial scar size at 6 months and a 12% absolute dec...