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MDedge Daily News: How smartphones could battle oral cancer
And what FDA panel speakers may be hiding.
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World Trade Center responders face greater cancer burden, including greater risk of multiple myeloma
The prevalence of multiple myeloma precursor disease was more than threefold higher in WTC exposed firefighters.
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Stroke patients benefited from CPAP
Significantly more OSA patients with a recent history of stroke experienced an improvement in their Modified Rankin Scale score after using CPAP,...
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Nitrofurantoin beats fosfomycin for uncomplicated UTI
MADRID – Two venerable antibiotics battle it out in simple UTIs, but it’s nitrofurantoin by a knockout.
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VIDEO: ZIP code, not gene code – Social factors shape patients’ health
How to overcome the nonmedical factors that frustrate treatment and fuel outcomes failures.
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Healthy lifestyle linked to better colon cancer survival
Five-year colon cancer survival probability was 85% for highly ACS guideline–adherent patients and 76% for patients with low adherence.
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Life and health are not even across the U.S.
Can data from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 help close mortality gaps and prevent deaths from opioid abuse, smoking, and obesity?
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MDedge Daily News: Time to let more pregnant women into drug trials?
And health IT under-users still outnumber super-users.
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EAGLES: Smoking cessation therapy did not up cardiovascular risk
The overall rate of major adverse cardiovascular events was less than 0.5% in a study of smokers who received one of three cessation therapies or...
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Simvastatin, atorvastatin cut mortality risk for sepsis patients
In addition to supporting cardiac function and inhibiting inflammatory cytokines, these statins appear to exert a direct antimicrobial effect.
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Cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes: Patients are often clueless
A survey showed most patients with type 2 diabetes are unaware of their elevated cardiovascular risk.