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Stroke Reduction in Older Hypertensives with Abnormal Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping; Primary Prevention of Hypertension; Effect of Aggressive Screening and Treatment on Prostate Cancer Mortality
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The clock drawing test had unacceptably low sensitivity in detecting the very earliest stages of AD.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy used within 24 hours of acute symptomatic CO poisoning decreases the risk of cognitive sequelae at 6 weeks and 12 months.
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After years of legal wrangling, the FDA has approved loratadine (Claritin, Schering-Plough) as an over-the-counter (OTC) product for the treatment of seasonal rhinitis.
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Eltabbakh retrospectively reviewed women presenting with clinical stage I endometrial cancer (according to the 1988 FIGO staging) at the University of Vermont. Women treated with laparoscopic surgery were compared with those treated with laparotomy with regard to their characteristics, surgical procedure, treatment, surgical stage, histology, tumor grade, and recurrence-free and overall survival.
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Synopsis: Combination chemotherapy and extensive radiotherapy introduced in the late 1960s greatly improved survival rates in Hodgkins disease (HD), but increased risk of second cancer was recognized from the early 1970s.
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Synopsis: Women with pregestational diabetes or gestational diabetes plus fasting hyperglycemia have a 3- to 4-fold increased risk of infant malformations, whereas women with mild gestational diabetes have malformation rates no different than the general nondiabetic obstetric population.
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Synopsis: Sertraline was significantly more effective than placebo when taken during the luteal phase for PMDD.
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Synopsis: Involvement of a gynecologic oncologist at the time of primary surgery for endometrial cancer was associated with comparable outcomes in both the university and community hospital setting.