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Amgen has received approval to market palifermin. The drug is approved to decrease the incidence and duration of severe oral mucositis in patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing chemotherapy, with or without radiation, followed by a bone marrow transplant.
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Although all strokes are potentially debilitating, intracerebral hemorrhage is often the most disabling.
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The non-continuous lead II rhythm strips shown in the Figure were obtained from an asymptomatic 76-year-old woman. Are these rhythms diagnostic (or at least consistent) with sick sinus syndrome? Is permanent pacemaker implantation indicated? On what does your answer depend?
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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Use of risedronate in women 80 years and older reduced the incidence of vertebral fractures and was well tolerated.
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Maintaining INRs (International normalized ratios) between 2 and 3 is safer than INRs below 2, as suggested by some guidelines.
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Most neoplastic lesions are not detected either by Hemoccult screening or by multitarget analysis of fecal DNA. Nevertheless, the fecal DNA analysis was significantly more efficient than Hemoccult testing.
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Pharmacotherapy of hypertension has been much in the news in the last 2 months. Standard therapies such as atenolol have been challenged, while calcium channel antagonists may be making a comeback.
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Atenolol is unsuitable as a first-line drug in hypertension.
