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11/10/2009
Despite breast-conserving surgery and other advances, post-breast surgery pain and sensory disturbances remained problems for many women in a Danish survey reported in the Nov. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
11/10/2009
Long-term use of statins is associated with a lower risk of gallstones that require surgery to remove the gallbladder, according to a study in the Nov. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
11/09/2009
Babies who are starved of oxygen at birth have less brain injury if they are therapeutically cooled than if they are not, and the likelihood of death or disability in these infants can be accurately predicted using MRI, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in The Lancet Neurology.
11/09/2009
The availability and use of epinephrine for anaphylaxis by emergency medical services varies nationwide, and less than one-third of anaphylaxis patients prescribed self-injectable epinephrine use it prior to arrival at a hospital, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, held from Nov. 5 to 10 in Miami Beach, Fla.
11/09/2009
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activation appears to play a role in numerous changes associated with early kidney disease seen in type 1 diabetes, according to research published online Oct. 23 in Endocrinology.
11/09/2009
Patients with chronic disabling occupational lumbar disorders enrolled in an interdisciplinary functional restoration program will likely achieve normal range of motion (ROM) and quantitative lumbar flexion-relaxation phenomenon, according to a study published in the Oct. 15 issue of Spine.
11/09/2009
Individuals with varying degrees of age-related macular degeneration may benefit in terms of visual acuity from cataract surgery, according to the Age-Related Eye Disease Study published in the November issue of Ophthalmology.
11/09/2009
The evaluation and treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia by primary care physicians is less rigorous than evaluation and treatment by urologists, according to a study in the November issue of The Journal of Urology.
11/09/2009
Rheumatoid arthritis patients who start taking anti-tumor necrosis factor α drugs are not likely to have a higher risk of developing cancer than other groups of rheumatoid arthritis patients, according to a Swedish study in the November issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.
11/09/2009
Ligamentoplasty may be associated with less adjacent-segment disease and fewer reoperations compared with lumbar fusion surgery, according to a Japanese study published in the October issue of the Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques.
11/09/2009
For children undergoing surgery, implementation of evidence-based pain management strategies and the ability to identify children at risk are important for effective pain management, according to a study in the October issue of the AORN Journal.
11/09/2009
The injection of corticosteroids and pain relieving agents post-total knee arthroplasty may shorten hospital stay but does not seem to improve pain, range of motion or knee function as compared to injection of pain relieving agents alone, according to a study in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
11/09/2009
Certain types of traffic-related air pollutants may raise the risk of bronchiolitis in infants, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
11/06/2009
In patients with normal single-photon emission computed tomography results, a severe coronary artery calcium score may predict high long-term cardiac risk, according to research published in the Nov. 10 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
11/06/2009
In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, a self-paced walking test may serve as a feasible and reproducible criterion measure of walking capacity, according to a Canadian study published in the Oct. 15 issue of Spine.
11/06/2009
Women over the age of 65 years who have higher levels of testosterone may likely be at greater risk of coronary heart disease, insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
11/06/2009
Extracorporeal shock-wave therapy may be as effective as surgery in promoting the union of long-bone factures over the long term and may provide better short-term clinical outcomes than surgery, according to a study in the November Journal of Joint & Bone Surgery.
11/06/2009
The protective effect of total fish, eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid may not reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to research completed in the Netherlands and published in the November issue of Diabetes Care.
11/06/2009
Younger postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy may have a lower risk of mortality than women undergoing no treatment, according to the results of a Bayesian meta-analysis published in the November issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
11/06/2009
Treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs is more cost-effective than the pyramid therapy, but, for now, biologics should be reserved for disease of longer duration or that is unresponsive to other treatment, according to a study in the Nov. 3 Annals of Internal Medicine.
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