Diabetes care depends on how your doctor is paid
From 2006 to 2008, nearly 75 per cent of patients with diabetes living in Ontario did not receive all of the tests recommended to properly monitor their disease…. read more.
From 2006 to 2008, nearly 75 per cent of patients with diabetes living in Ontario did not receive all of the tests recommended to properly monitor their disease…. read more.
Significant survival benefit observed in women with HER2 negative breast cancer – ASCO Press Release.
People with diabetes have about double the risk of premature death as people of the same age without diabetes. Studies also have shown that they have about twice… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Metformin therapy at 500 twice daily (BID) is not protective against heart failure in non-diabetic patients following a heart attack, researchers reported on March… read more.
World Health Matters by Gary Finnegan – Italy – Death rates from pancreatic cancer are predicted to increase in men and women in 2014 and beyond, according to… read more.
World Health Matters by Gary Finnegan – China – Declining air pollution following the closure of coal-burning power plants in China has been linked to improved childhood development… read more.
EMA Highlights by Gary Finnegan – At its April meeting, the EMA’s influential Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended that a marketing authorisation be granted… read more.
EMA Highlights by Gary Finnegan – The number of new medicines approved in the European Union is rising year-on-year, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
EMA Highlights – by Gary Finnegan – A new system designed to increase the safety of medicines in Europe has seen a significant increase in the number of… read more.
Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – by Bruce Sylvester – Over half of depressed subjects in a newly reported study who were injected with onabotulinumtoxinA (OBA/Botox) achieved… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – Eplerenone, a drug used to reduce the risk of death in patients with heart failure, shows significant… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – Immunosuppresant drugs used to prevent organ rejection after transplantation could become used in fighting persistent HIV infection,… read more.