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Among postmenopausal women who have hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, increasing age correlates with a rise in disease-specific mortality, independently of tumor, treatment, and patient characteristics, according to a report in the Feb. 9 issue of JAMA. This increased cancer-specific... »
Bevacizumab Boosts Treatment Responses in Early Breast Cancer
Adding bevacizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage HER2-negative breast cancer significantly improves pathological complete response, according to preliminary reports from two large randomized clinical trials. The published results are likely to reopen debate over the... »
BRCA1/2 Mutations Tied to Better Ovarian Cancer Survival
Germline mutations in the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 – and particularly those in BRCA2 – are associated with higher 5-year overall survival rates among patients with confirmed invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, according to a pooled analysis of data from 26 observational studies... »
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Pregnant Women With Lymphoma Can Have Good Outcomes
SAN DIEGO – Women diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy stand a good chance of carrying a healthy child to term even when they opt for treatment during the second or third trimester, according to a retrospective... »
NAFLD Common in Teenage Girls with PCOS
SAN FRANCISCO – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is common in adolescent girls with polycystic ovaries, and its presence coincides with worse metabolic derangements, according to Australian researchers. Because of that, it... »
Vitamin D Deficiency/Breast Cancer Link Questioned
SAN ANTONIO – A new meta-analysis challenges the notion that breast cancer risk is inversely related to serum vitamin D level. The meta-analysis included 16 published studies deemed by investigators to have made the grade... »
SAN DIEGO – Women diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy stand a good chance of carrying a healthy child to term even when they opt for treatment during the second or third trimester, according to a retrospective... »
NAFLD Common in Teenage Girls with PCOS
SAN FRANCISCO – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is common in adolescent girls with polycystic ovaries, and its presence coincides with worse metabolic derangements, according to Australian researchers. Because of that, it... »
Vitamin D Deficiency/Breast Cancer Link Questioned
SAN ANTONIO – A new meta-analysis challenges the notion that breast cancer risk is inversely related to serum vitamin D level. The meta-analysis included 16 published studies deemed by investigators to have made the grade... »
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Breast Cancer Mortality Rises with Age in Older Women
Among postmenopausal women who have hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, increasing age correlates with a rise in disease-specific mortality, independently of tumor, treatment, and patient characteristics, according to a... »
Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Linked to BMD Loss
Exemestane significantly decreases bone mineral density in healthy postmenopausal women who take it to reduce their risk of breast cancer, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in The Lancet Oncology. Two years of... »
Short-Term Ulipristal Found Effective for Uterine Fibroids
Short-term therapy with ulipristal acetate, a selective progesterone-receptor modulator, is superior to placebo and noninferior to leuprolide at controlling the bleeding, reducing the volume, and improving the pain of... »
Among postmenopausal women who have hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, increasing age correlates with a rise in disease-specific mortality, independently of tumor, treatment, and patient characteristics, according to a... »
Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Linked to BMD Loss
Exemestane significantly decreases bone mineral density in healthy postmenopausal women who take it to reduce their risk of breast cancer, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in The Lancet Oncology. Two years of... »
Short-Term Ulipristal Found Effective for Uterine Fibroids
Short-term therapy with ulipristal acetate, a selective progesterone-receptor modulator, is superior to placebo and noninferior to leuprolide at controlling the bleeding, reducing the volume, and improving the pain of... »
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Doubled Fracture Risk in Younger Women
CHICAGO – Rheumatoid arthritis more than doubles the risk of fracture in women younger than age 50, according to the results of a large population-based study. While it’s well known that the disease drives up fracture risk... »
Mild Lupus Means Healthy Pregnancies for Most Women
CHICAGO – Women with low-activity systemic lupus erythematosus can have healthy pregnancies with few complications, even those with a history of renal disease. "The good news was that the overall pregnancy adverse... »
Bazedoxifene, Conjugated Estrogen Protects Breasts Post Menopause
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Use of a combination of bazedoxifene and conjugated estrogens had no significant impact on breast density (a potential risk factor for breast cancer) in postmenopausal women, based on data from the... »
CHICAGO – Rheumatoid arthritis more than doubles the risk of fracture in women younger than age 50, according to the results of a large population-based study. While it’s well known that the disease drives up fracture risk... »
Mild Lupus Means Healthy Pregnancies for Most Women
CHICAGO – Women with low-activity systemic lupus erythematosus can have healthy pregnancies with few complications, even those with a history of renal disease. "The good news was that the overall pregnancy adverse... »
Bazedoxifene, Conjugated Estrogen Protects Breasts Post Menopause
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Use of a combination of bazedoxifene and conjugated estrogens had no significant impact on breast density (a potential risk factor for breast cancer) in postmenopausal women, based on data from the... »
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Beta2 Agonists for Asthma in Pregnancy
Asthma continues to be one of the most common chronic conditions complicating pregnancy; approximately 8% of pregnant women in the United States report a current diagnosis. Asthmatic women are at increased risk of adverse... »
Mississippi Voters Reject Personhood Measure
The voters in Mississippi soundly rejected an attempt to change the state’s constitution to grant legal rights to embryos, starting at the time of fertilization. After intense campaigning by advocates on both sides of the... »
To Screen or Not to Screen?
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch makes some health care advocates nervous. Amid the frequent and vocal demands for early disease detection that have become the battle cry of preventative medicine, his opposition sounds like heresy,... »
Asthma continues to be one of the most common chronic conditions complicating pregnancy; approximately 8% of pregnant women in the United States report a current diagnosis. Asthmatic women are at increased risk of adverse... »
Mississippi Voters Reject Personhood Measure
The voters in Mississippi soundly rejected an attempt to change the state’s constitution to grant legal rights to embryos, starting at the time of fertilization. After intense campaigning by advocates on both sides of the... »
To Screen or Not to Screen?
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch makes some health care advocates nervous. Amid the frequent and vocal demands for early disease detection that have become the battle cry of preventative medicine, his opposition sounds like heresy,... »
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| Feb 6 - 11 Dallas, TX | Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Annual Meeting (The Pregnancy Meeting) |
| Feb 6 - 10 Sarasota, FL | Rheumatology: Improving Primary Care Outcomes Through Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Feb 7 - 11 San Francisco, CA | American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS): Annual Meeting |
| Feb 8 - 12 Naples, FL | Dermatology Foundation (DF): Clinical Symposia |
| Feb 8 - 11 Barcelona, | International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) |
| Feb 8 - 10 San Diego, CA | American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM): Annual Scientific Assembly |
| Feb 9 - 11 New York, NY | Integrative Healthcare Symposium |
| Feb 9 - 11 New Orleans, LA | American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR): Southern Regional Meeting |
| Feb 12 - 15 Freiburg, | German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: 41st Annual Meeting |