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07/20/2006
Patients who had malignant bone tumors in childhood and were treated with anthracyclines require life-long cardiac monitoring, according to a prospective study published online July 20 in the Annals of Oncology.
07/20/2006
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved several first generic versions of meloxicam (Mobic Tablets), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug indicated for the treatment of osteoarthritis.
07/19/2006
Dermatology patients with urgent problems, such as suspected skin cancer lesions, wait as long to see a physician as patients with ordinary conditions, regardless of whether they are Medicare or out-of-pocket patients, researchers report in the July issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
07/19/2006
The percentage of women who are leading authors of medical studies has greatly increased over the past four decades, but women still comprise a minority of such authors, according to a report in the July 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
07/18/2006
Adolescent girls who are obese run a higher risk of premature death later in life, and sibutramine along with behavior therapy can help reduce body weight in teens, according to two reports published in the July 18 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
07/18/2006
Most health experts surveyed in the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey say Medicare Part D has been good for beneficiaries who are vulnerable to high drug costs, but that more changes are needed.
07/18/2006
Many dermatology residents lose interest in a career in academia, according to a report in the July issue of the Archives of Dermatology. Encouraging them to publish may be a way to remotivate them towards an academic career, according to a second study in the same issue.
07/18/2006
Middle-aged women who experience migraine with visual aura have a higher risk of cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction and ischemic strokes, than those without migraines, researchers report in the July 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
07/18/2006
Generalized vaccinia is an extremely rare complication of smallpox vaccination, and none of the cases suspected in military personnel in recent years have been laboratory confirmed, researchers report in the July issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
07/17/2006
Travelers who visit the Indian Ocean islands are at risk of contracting the rare Chikungunya virus, which caused 77 deaths in the islands between Jan. 1, 2006 and March 2, 2006, according to a case report published in the July 15 issue of The Lancet.
07/17/2006
While it may take longer and require a lengthier hospital stay, laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is safer and more effective than laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding among super morbidly obese patients, according to a study in the July issue of the Archives of Surgery.
07/14/2006
In assessing severely demented patients, clinicians should not rely on observational pain scales because many patients can reliably assess their own pain levels, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
07/14/2006
In the treatment of childhood empyema, chest drain with intrapleural urokinase is as effective and more cost-effective than video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), according to a study published in the July 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
07/14/2006
Asymptomatic women with a history of smoking are more likely than men to have screening-detected lung cancer, but they are less likely to die of the disease than men, researchers report in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
07/14/2006
Smoking accounts for more than half of the difference in adult male mortality across socioeconomic classes, according to the results of a new study published online July 14 in The Lancet.
07/13/2006
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis have an increased risk of death from their first acute cardiovascular event compared with people in the general population, according to a report in the July issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.
07/13/2006
Scuba diving is not associated with an accelerated decline in lung function, at least in healthy non-smoking male divers, according to a study published in the July issue of Chest.
07/13/2006
Overweight and obese men and women who have experienced a myocardial infarction may be more likely to receive effective cardiac treatment regimens at the hospital compared with their normal-weight counterparts, according to a report in the June issue of the American Heart Journal.
07/11/2006
Parkinson disease patients can be apathetic in the absence of depression, according to a new study published in the July 11 issue of Neurology.
07/11/2006
Recurrent otitis media infections and otitis media with effusion in children are associated with the presence of resistant biofilm bacteria, according to a study in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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