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KidneyWeek 2019 Hospitalizations for Pregnancy-related Kidney Injury Increasing The rate of hospitalizations for pregnancy-related acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasing, and diabetes is adding to the risk, new research suggests.
News, November 14, 2019
KidneyWeek 2019 Emergency-dialysis Patients Who Transition Home Early Tend to Have Programmatic Support Few patients who begin emergency dialysis make an early transition to home care, but those who do tend to start the procedure in a center that has programs to support the move, new research suggests.
News, November 13, 2019
KidneyWeek 2019 New Equations Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk Two new equations from the CKD Prognosis Consortium, one for diabetics and one for non-diabetics, accurately predict the risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) over the next five years.
News, November 11, 2019
KidneyWeek 2019 Safety Data on AstraZeneca Anaemia Drug Points to Potential Use in Dialysis AstraZeneca said that safety data on roxadustat underpinned the British drugmaker's hopes for the anaemia drug to become a standard treatment for patients with kidney disease.
News, November 08, 2019
ENDO 2019 Hemoglobin A1c Misses Many Cases of Diabetes The hemoglobin A1c blood test used widely to diagnose diabetes is "highly unreliable" with a significant tendency to miss cases of diabetes and overestimate the prevalence of normal glucose tolerance (NGT), according to new research.
News, March 27, 2019
DDW 2018 Experimental Drug May Protect Celiac Patients From Gluten Exposure An experimental monoclonal antibody (AMG 714) may help protect patients with celiac disease from developing symptoms such as gut pain and diarrhea after inadvertent exposure to gluten, according to a proof-of-concept study.
News, May 29, 2018
DDW 2018 Blue-Dye Tablet During Bowel Prep Boosts Polyp Detection Rate Swallowing a tablet of delayed-release methylene blue during bowel preparation for colonoscopy increases detection of adenomas, particularly hard-to-detect ones that are flat or subtle, according to results of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
News, May 28, 2018
ASCO 2018 Merck's Keytruda Boosts Response in Hard-to-Treat Lung Cancer The combination of Merck & Co's immunotherapy Keytruda and chemotherapy boosted response rates in patients with advanced hard-to-treat squamous cell lung cancer, the company said.
News, May 23, 2018
ASCO 2018 Merck KGaA's Lung Cancer Drugs Show Promise in Early-Stage Trials Germany's Merck KGaA said two of its experimental oncology drugs showed early signs of promise in certain lung cancer patients, potentially helping efforts to find a drug-industry partner to share further development costs for one of them.
News, May 23, 2018
ACOG 2018 HIV Vertical Transmission Rates Comparable With PI- and INSTI-based ART
News, May 03, 2018
ASRM Cancer Risk Elevated in Men With Peyronie's Disease Men with Peyronie's disease (PD) are at increased risk of malignancy including cancer of the stomach and testis, suggesting they may need additional surveillance after diagnosis and treatment for PD, say researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
News, October 31, 2017
ESMO Nivolumab-Ipilimumab Combo for Melanoma: 3-Year Survival Data Three-year survival rates with advanced melanoma are 52% with nivolumab and 34% with ipilimumab, but 58% with a sequential combination of the two, according to the latest results comparing the two anticancer biologics separately and together.
News, September 11, 2017
IAS HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Can Be Taken as Needed Men at risk for HIV infection can safely take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when they need it, instead of every day, suggests a new study.
News, August 04, 2017
PAS 'Baby Boxes' Help New Moms Stick to Safer Sleep Practices Providing new mothers with a "baby box" - a cardboard bassinet with a mattress and fitted cotton sheet - reduces the likelihood that they’ll adopt the unsafe habit of sharing a bed with their newborn, new research shows.
News, May 29, 2017
SCCM Sepsis Leading Cause of Early Readmissions in the U.S. Unplanned 30-day readmissions are common after sepsis hospitalizations, according to data from the Nationwide Readmissions Database.
News, January 25, 2017
SABCS Genomic Analysis of Treatment-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer The mutational landscape of drug-resistant estrogen receptor (ER)-positive metastatic breast cancer differs significantly from that of primary ER+ breast cancer, according to research presented today at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
News, December 07, 2016
ACR Staying on DMARDs Through Surgery Doesn't Boost Infection Risk Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy who need surgery don't have to stop the medication in the perioperative period, according to a new study.
News, November 16, 2016
Statins and Mortality Reduction in Ankylosing Spondylitis, Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis who take statins have a considerably lower risk of early death compared with those not on the drugs, according to a new study.
News, November 15, 2016
ACAAI Antibiotics Use in Pregnancy Linked to Child's Asthma New research confirms that children whose mothers used antibiotics during pregnancy have higher rates of asthma, but it remains unclear if the drugs or the infection, or something else entirely, is to blame.
News, November 17, 2016
ACAAI Years Later, Perennial Grass Pollen Immunotherapy Is Still More Effective Fifteen years later, patients treated for allergic rhinitis triggered by grass pollen showed more benefit from perennial rather than preseasonal immunotherapy, researchers found.
News, November 16, 2016

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