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Hope and hype: Inside the push for wearable diabetes technology
Want to make a billion dollars? Here’s a hot tip: Invent wearable technology that ...
Pot legalization tied to drop in opioid prescribing rates
FROM JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE Laws covering medical or recreational use of marijuana are associated ...
Certifications, training to increase addiction medicine specialists
Two new workforce developments aim to increase the number of addiction medicine specialists and ...
Warfarin dose capping avoided supratherapeutic INRs in hospitalized elderly
REPORTING FROM THSNA 2018 SAN DIEGO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – A simple intervention of ...
Always get culture in symptomatic children with neurogenic bladder
FROM PEDIATRICS In the symptomatic child with neurogenic bladder at risk for urinary tract ...
Protocol helped identify hospitalized children at risk for VTE
REPORTING FROM THSNA 2018 SAN DIEGO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Following simple institutional care ...
Single screening for Lynch syndrome beats sequential tests in CRC
FROM JAMA ONCOLOGY Physicians could more accurately test patients with colon cancer for Lynch ...
Think about breast cancer surveillance for transgender patients
REPORTING FROM ENDO 2018 CHICAGO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Both transgender men and transgender ...
Higher preconception blood pressure linked to pregnancy loss
FROM HYPERTENSION High preconception blood pressure is associated with a greater risk of pregnancy ...
Prior bariatric surgery may lead to IBD
FROM ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS Bariatric surgery increases the risk of new-onset inflammatory bowel ...
Federal budget grants $1.8 billion to Alzheimer’s and dementia research
Congress has appropriated an additional $414 million for research into Alzheimer’s disease and other ...
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for CTEPH improves heart failure symptoms
REPORTING FROM CRT 2018 WASHINGTON (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Balloon pulmonary angioplasty provides meaningful ...
Checkpoint inhibition less toxic than antiangiogenic therapy in NSCLC
REPORTING FROM THE NCCN ANNUAL CONFERENCE ORLANDO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Checkpoint blockade is ...
