Month: February 2019

Benefits at one year include reduced microvascular obstruction, improved left ventricular remodeling

Lumacaftor/ivacaftor safe in children ages 2 to 5 with cystic fibrosis homozygous for F508del-CFTR

Study refutes animal studies suggesting trazodone delays dementia in patients at prodromal stage

But many do not stick with weight-loss plans or talk with doctors about losing weight

Campaigns promoting organ donation in populations affected by drugs have contributed to increase

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass linked to significantly lower risk for microvascular complications

No important improvement seen in pain, function, quality of life versus placebo surgery, other options

Age-standardized mortality rate higher for men than women; rate of decrease lower for men

Risk for malignancy, acute complications low for adnexal mass with benign ultrasound morphology

Physicians fail to ID half of criteria-positive patients, incorrectly ID 11 percent of criteria-negative patients

Most parents know about alternatives to opioids, but just over a third ask about them

Almost 80 percent start brushing later than recommended; 34.2 percent brush just once a day

Staff-initiated CPR linked to increase in hospital discharge, favorable neurologic status on discharge

Textured implants linked to cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma