Phentermine-topiramate shows best chance of weight loss at 1 year
The combination weight-loss drug phentermine plus topiramate is associated with the highest odds of individuals being able to lose 5% of their body weight within 1 year, according to a meta-analysis... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 14, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Septicemia cost U.S. hospitals $23.7 billion in 2013
Septicemia is the most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, accounting for $23.7 billion in aggregate hospital costs in 2013, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 14, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors may boost cardiac risk in chronic myeloid leukemia
Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who received tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) had 1.7 times the rate of arterial or venous vascular events of population-based controls in a large... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
No OS benefit with tasquinimod in mCRPC
The oral immunotherapy tasquinimod improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but the drug failed to improve overall... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Continuing demand for family physicians drives up salaries
The average starting salary for family physicians was up 13% in the last year, with the increase putting it over $200,000 for the first time, according to physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins.... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
VIDEO: ASD doesn’t appear any more prevalent in children with type 1 diabetes
NEW ORLEANS – The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes appears to be similar to that in the general pediatric population, according to a study... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
ASD doesn’t appear any more prevalent in children with type 1 diabetes
NEW ORLEANS – The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes appears to be similar to that in the general pediatric population, according to a study... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Antibody-drug conjugate boasts high remission rates in AML
Copenhagen – Among older adults with acute myeloid leukemia, the combination of a drug-antibody conjugate and hypomethylating therapy was associated with high complete remission rates.
In a <a... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Inotuzumab continues to wow against relapsed/refractory ALL
Copenhagen – The experimental antibody-drug conjugate inotuzumab ozogamicin was associated with a nearly threefold higher complete remission rate than standard intensive chemotherapy in patients with... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Childhood cancer survivors face several long-term risks
Chicago – Survivors of childhood cancers face several later risks from treatment, and investigators presented studies evaluating risks in three specific areas – secondary neoplasms, premature... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Like tobacco, recent marijuana use decreases exhaled nitric oxide
Recent marijuana use may have an effect similar to recent tobacco use with regard to decreased production of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO), but a very different effect on forced vital capacity (FVC),... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
2015-2016 flu season slower and milder than past 3 years
FROM THE MMWR
The 2015-2016 flu season was less severe than the last three seasons, with a lower hospitalization rate and fewer pediatric deaths.
Cases of influenza appeared later in the season... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Inherited thrombocytopenia type is a risk factor for hematologic cancers
Copenhagen – Investigators in Italy have found that a recently identified form of inherited thrombocytopenia related to mutations in the gene ETV6 (ETV6-RT) appears to be largely asymptomatic, but... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Adjuvant AI therapy for breast cancer: 10 years is superior to 5 years
CHICAGO – Extending adjuvant aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy from 5 years to 10 years further reduces the risk of recurrence and new breast cancer in postmenopausal women treated for early disease,... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Recurrent DKA episodes found to trigger cognitive changes
NEW ORLEANS – Recurrent episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) resulted in altered brain metabolite concentration, as well as differences in mental processing speed, compared with healthy controls,... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
