Ipsilateral arm BP measurements after breast cancer?
A 47-year-old woman with a history of right-sided breast cancer – status after lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, and radiation – comes in to clinic for evaluation. She asks the MA to take... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 8, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
New data propel headache neuromodulation devices toward approval
WASHINGTON – Encouraging data on an external vagal nerve stimulator and a minimally invasive system that targets the sphenopalatine ganglion are propelling the two neuromodulation devices toward... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hospital costs higher for patients discharged to postacute care
The average cost of U.S. hospital stays for injury or illness in patients discharged to postacute care is more than double that of visits with routine discharges, according to the Agency for... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
MPT64 rapid test may miss TB caused by <i>M. africanum</i> strain
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium africanum West Africa 2 is significantly less likely to be detected by a MPT64 rapid antigen test than is M. tuberculosis, according to a research... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What difference would an empagliflozin CVD indication make?
When a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee met on June 28 to consider a new indication for the type 2 diabetes drug empagliflozin – reduction of cardiovascular mortality in patients with... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Apologizing for medical errors
Question: A patient was admitted with heart failure, developed deep vein thrombosis, and was started on warfarin and Lovenox as “bridge” therapy. On day 4, the patient achieved anticoagulation... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Severe psoriasis upped lymphoma risk in large cohort study
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Psoriasis of all severities was linked to a 3.5-fold increase in risk of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and severe psoriasis upped the associated risk of Hodgkin lymphoma by about 2.5... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Sleep apnea in pregnancy linked to preterm birth
DENVER – Pregnant women with sleep apnea are more likely to have planned obstetric interventions, results of an Australian population-based cohort study suggest.
The study included all 636,227... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
I-SPY 2 graduates two neoadjuvant treatments to phase III trials
Taking a step toward the goal of personalized medicine, investigators in the multicenter, adaptive I-SPY 2 trial report that tailoring neoadjuvant therapy combinations to specific cancer subtypes in... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Feds raise buprenorphine patient loads
Qualified physicians soon will be allowed to provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine to nearly triple the number of patients under a new rule by the Substance Abuse and Mental... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Insomnia severity more pronounced in older Hispanics
Insomnia is a more pronounced problem than expected among Hispanics over age 50, according to results of a study by Christopher N. Kaufmann, PhD, and his coauthors.
Dr. Kaufmann and his colleagues... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Pediatric cancer survivors at increased risk for endocrine abnormalities
Patients who survived pediatric-onset cancer are at increased risk for developing or experiencing endocrine abnormalities.
Risk was significantly higher in survivors who underwent high-risk... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Little evidence of ‘slippery slope’ with euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide
While euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide increasingly are being legalized around the world, there appears to be little evidence that vulnerable patients are being targeted by abuse of the... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Siponimod shows promise through 24 months in relapsing-remitting MS
Once-daily oral siponimod was associated with sustained effects on MRI outcomes at 24 months in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in a dose-blinded extension of the phase II... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Sticks and stones and words
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This mantra was the retort of choice for thousands of apparently resilient premillennial children. But you and I, and just about... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
