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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: June 6, 2014
Key clinical point: Lapatinib plus paclitaxel conferred no overall survival benefit in advanced, HER-positive gastric cancer.Major finding: There ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: June 4, 2014
Key clinical point: Bariatric surgery was linked to type 2 diabetes remission in some moderately obese patients.Major finding: Complete remission ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 29, 2014
Key clinical point: Survey findings show that chronic migraine has serious negative effects on income, disability, and educational attainment.Majo...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 23, 2014
Key clinical point: The investigational antibody etrolizumab was linked to clinical remission in some patients with treatment-resistant ulcerative...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 22, 2014
Key clinical point: Zinc supplements reduced the risk of death and some diseases for children who were deficient in the mineral.Major finding: Zin...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 22, 2014
Key clinical point: It may be more cost effective to treat central venous catheter occlusion with alteplase rather than line replacement.Major fin...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Pasireotide reduced the incidence of postoperative pancreatic fistula, leak, or abscess.Major finding: Compared with placebo, ...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Fear of breast cancer recurrence results in many unnecessary contralateral prophylactic mastectomies.Major finding: Women with...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 21, 2014
Key clinical point: Patients who present with optic neuritis and have multisegment lesions on MRI, particularly involving posterior pathways of th...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 19, 2014
Key clinical point: Giving Vitamin C to pregnant smokers may improve newborns’ lung health.Major finding: Lung function at birth was about 1...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 9, 2014
Major finding: Primary care doctors and subspecialists were up
to 9 times more likely to initiate tube feeding in hospitalized
patients with sev...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 9, 2014
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 6, 2014
Major finding: Overweight but metabolically normal children were twice as likely to develop diabetes and six times as likely to develop metabolic ...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 6, 2014
Key clinical point: Orexin antagonist suvorexant improved sleep based on both subjective and objective measures, with minimal side effects.
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: May 2, 2014
Key clinical point: Use of a headache screening tool in a primary care setting can reduce the number of incorrect diagnoses and inappropriate medi...
