Aug 31, 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Xtandi (enzalutamide) to treat men with late-stage (metastatic) castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread or recurred, even with medical or surgical therapy to...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Linzess (linaclotide) to treat chronic idiopathic constipation and to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) in adults. According to the National Institutes...
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Zynex, Inc, a provider and developer of non-invasive medical devices for electrotherapy, stroke rehabilitation, neurological diagnosis and cardiac monitoring, announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance on its InWave medical...
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Data from 2001 to 2010 indicate that the prevalence of asthma in the United States appears to have increased from 7.3% to 8.4%. Healthcare visits per 100 persons with asthma declined in primary care settings during the study...
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A team of American researchers has found that a 12-week, web-based physical activity (PA) intervention appears to improve measures of PA and quality of life (QOL) among adult women. In the study, women aged 18 and older received...
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The rate of hospitalizations for stroke per 10,000 population increased from 32.4 in 1989 to 34.9 in 1999, but then decreased to 31.8 in 2009, according to new data from the CDC. Throughout these 2 decades, more than two-thirds...
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Results of a small, 12-week study indicate that acupuncture appears to be a useful adjunctive therapy for reducing dyspnea on exertion (DOE) in patients with COPD. Patients who underwent acupuncture in addition to standard...
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The utility of distress screening appears to vary among cancer clinicians, according to findings from a British investigation. Researchers found that clinicians believed screening was useful in 43% of patient assessments but not...
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Permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) appears to be the only form of AF that independently predicts death among patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who are treated invasively. When compared with a control group, more...
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