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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 12, 2013
Major finding: Men with prostate cancer who underwent androgen blockade were 17% less likely to develop secondary non–small cell lung cancer...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 11, 2013
Major finding: About 27% of melanoma survivors reported never wearing sunscreen, and 2% reported using a tanning bed.Data source: A database revie...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 9, 2013
Major finding: Women aged 75 years and older were 3 times more likely to die from breast cancer if they went 5 or more years between mammograms, c...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: April 6, 2013
Major finding: A two-step immunotherapy regimen combined with chemotherapy had up to a 75% response rate for women with recurrent stage III or IV ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 29, 2013
Major finding: A serum panel of four metabolites had a 78% sensitivity for detecting resectable pancreatic cancers.Data source: The panel was deri...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 26, 2013
Major finding: Black men aged 60 years and younger who have frontal baldness had more than double in the risk of both high-stage and high-grade di...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 26, 2013
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 26, 2013
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 14, 2013
Major Finding: Steroid treatment reduced the overall length of stay by a little more than 1 day in patients with community-acquire pneumonia.
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 11, 2013
Major Finding: Aliskiren
added no significant benefit for patients hospitalized with heart failure, and,
in fact, was associated with increased mo...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 5, 2013
Major Finding: Patients with inflammatory diseases who started an anti-TNF drug were no more likely to develop herpes zoster than those who took o...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 5, 2013
Major finding: Diabetes patients who took sitagliptin or exenatide faced twice the risk of being hospitalized for acute pancreatitis.Data source: ...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 4, 2013
Major Finding: The increasing use of deep suctioning increased length of stay by up to 1 day in infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis, while lap...
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 28, 2013
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- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 27, 2013
Major Finding: Polymorphisms on four separate chromosomal locations are significantly associated with five separate psychiatric illnesses: schizop...
