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  • Osteoporosis

    Osteoporosis is a highly prevalent metabolic bone disease that affects both men and woman at risk of bone demineralization.
  • Colorectal Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Timing Is Something

    In a retrospective review, delay beyond 60 days in initiating adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for colorectal cancer was associated with poorer overall survival. Although factors such as surgical complications or the existence of comorbidities may explain the delays for some of the cases, other "administrative" factors, such as delays resulting from insurance authorizations or referral setbacks, are to be avoided, if at all possible.
  • CML Treatment in the Elderly: Imatinib Levels the Playing Field

    Older age is an adverse prognostic factor for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the pre-tyrosine kinase era. The authors evaluated the influence of age on outcomes among 559 chronic-phase CML patients treated with imatinib.
  • Population Screening for the Early ID of Prostate Cancer

    To assess whether screening for prostate cancer reduces prostate-specific mortality, a population-based, randomized, controlled trial for a random sample of men between the ages of 50 to 69 in a single city were screened every third year from 1987 to 1996. There was no significant difference in the rate of death from prostate cancer for the screened group compared to the control group after 20 years of follow-up.
  • Extranodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma

    The term marginal-zone lymphoma (MZL) refers to three distinct but closely related lymphoprolferative disorders: mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma (extranodal MZL), splenic MZL, and nodal MZL.
  • Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement

  • Improving Survival Rates by Surgical Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases

    In a retrospective analysis of aggressive two-stage hepatic resection of colorectal metastases, survival was 51% at 5 years compared to only 15% for comparable patients treated with chemotherapy alone. The complexity of the surgical approach and the advent of potentially more effective systemic therapies highlight the need for a definitive randomized trial before such an approach is assimilated into community practice.
  • Pharmacology Watch

    Two new drugs for treatment of hepatitis C; NSAIDs and myocardial infarction risk; AIM-HIGH clinical trial stopped; and FDA actions.
  • CMS planning infection control inspections of U.S. hospitals

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the single largest payer for health care in the United States is creating a hospital inspection program focused specifically on infection control, Hospital Infection Control & Prevention has learned.
  • IPs save over $100,000 by using ... duct tape?

    OK, maybe duct tape really can fix everything. A simple red roll of this prime tool in the kit of every weekend repairman led to some rather startling results for innovative infection preventionists.