Month: March 2019

Additionally, patients often not prepared with realistic expectations to receive home health care

Current surgical practice in U.S. adults involves presurgery imaging, laparoscopic approach

Yo-yo dieting associations with cardiovascular disease stronger in women with no pregnancy history

Annual relapse rate 0.39 before pregnancy, dropped during pregnancy, rebounded by four to six months

53.5 percent receive treatment within 90 days; 32.4 percent receive chemo without tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Adverse events limited to softened stool, modest increase in bowel movement freqeuncy

Water pipe tobacco smokers are exposed to level of nicotine that is physiologically active in short term

In analysis restricted to women who did not develop T2DM, GDM still linked to increased risk

AUC 0.722 for predicting prevalent diabetes in test dataset; negative predictive value 97 percent

All with personal history of breast cancer should be offered testing; updated testing recommended

Survival improved with COPD and exfoliation syndrome versus COPD alone

The American Academy of Dermatology The annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology was held from March 1 to 5 in Washington, D.C., and attracted more than 15,000 participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in dermatology. The conference highlighted recent advances in the diagnosis and management […]

Lower risk for all-cause, cardiovascular, cancer-related mortality similar to people active throughout adulthood

CDC says more than 2,000 cases of mumps in U.S. last year, 58 cases reported in January of this year