ADT: No Help as Primary Tx for Prostate Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- Primary androgen deprivation therapy offered no survival benefit to prostate cancer patients with localized disease who opted not to have surgery or radiation therapy, data from a large retrospective cohort showed. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - March 17, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rheuminations: Blame the Pain on the Rain?
(MedPage Today) -- Do your arthritis patients complain that their symptoms are influenced by the cold and wet weather? There's plenty of support for this, including a new study out of the Netherlands seeking to quantify this link and examine contributing factors. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - March 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Week: Blood Test for Alzheimer's and an Electric Migraine Tx
(MedPage Today) -- The consumer media loves to tout "simple blood tests” for hard-to-diagnose diseases, but as we saw last week, they are rarely simple. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - March 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HIV Case Linked to Lesbian Sex
(MedPage Today) -- In an uncommon occurrence, a Texas woman appears to have acquired HIV through sex with another woman, the CDC reported. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - March 13, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marriage: Good for the Heart?
(MedPage Today) -- Middle-age women living with a spouse or partner carried a lower risk of dying from ischemic heart disease compared with those living alone, although the absolute difference was small, a large British study showed. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - March 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
