Home 2016
Archives
CDC: Americans Still Consume Too Much Salt
Changes in individual lifestyles and how foods are produced are needed to lower consumption
CDC: TB Potentially Passed From Zoo Elephants to People
Findings show potential source of infection with long-term, close contact with infected animals
Trio of Papers Reveal Lessons Learned From Ebola Epidemic
Women showed greater survival; an anti-malaria combination Rx worked well
Antibody Tx Reduces Graft-vs-Host Post Stem Cell Transplant
Results for patients with acute leukemia
Candidacy Criteria Updated for Heart Transplantation
Changes to guidelines include consideration of transplantation in patients with HIV, hepatitis
Review Examines Efficacy of PPI Tx for Esophageal Eosinophilia
About half of patients with symptomatic esophageal eosinophilia have clinicohistologic remission
Exposure to Oral Contraceptives Not Tied to Birth Defects
Findings should reassure women and their doctors, researchers say
Trends in Insulin Use, Glycemic Control Explored
Proportion of patients currently on any insulin stable from 1988-1994 to 1999-2012
U.S. Cancer Mortality Rates Down 23 Percent Since 1991
That translates to an additional 1.7 million survivors
African-American Men Produce Less Prostate-Specific Antigen
Equal serum prostate-specific antigen and prostate-specific antigen mass despite larger prostates
