EAHP 2012 Report – Drug safety in geriatric patients
by Zara Qadir reporting on the presentation by Professor Petra Thürmann (pictured) from the Philipp Klee-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology at the HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal in Germany.
by Zara Qadir reporting on the presentation by Professor Petra Thürmann (pictured) from the Philipp Klee-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology at the HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal in Germany.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Researchers in a large, retrospective study report that daily use of low-dose aspirin is… read more.
Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic medical centers in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, according to a report published in the August issue… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Liver transplants involving selected organs from elderly patients performed just as well as livers from usual donors,
by Thomas R. Collins – A living donor liver transplant can be a safe and effective first-line treatment for very young children with biliary atresia,
Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.
World Health Matters (U.S.A.) – by Gary Finnegan – The United States is paying far more for health services than 12 comparable industrialised nations but the quality of… read more.
by Dr Sunil Upadhyay – Age is the number one risk factor for the development of breast cancer. Not only the incidence but also the mortality from breast… read more.
by Dr Alison Louise Jones (pictured) – The headline figures are that the majority of women survive a diagnosis of breast cancer: 78% of those women currently diagnosed… read more.
The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal of the… read more.
In Europe, osteoporotic fractures account for more Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost than common cancers with the exception of lung cancer.
A study of discontinuing natalizumab for multiple sclerosis patients testing positive for JC virus antibody found a higher relapse rate within 6 months than for patients continuing the… read more.
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