Conference News

IDWeek Fatal Measles Complication More Common Than Thought: U.S. Study A deadly complication of measles in young children that strikes years after infection may be more common than previously thought, according to a study presented on Friday that stressed the importance of vaccinations against the highly contagious disease.
News, October 28, 2016
The Concussion Rate May Be Rising Among Adolescents Adolescents are the age group most likely to suffer a concussion and the rate seems to be rising, according to research presented July 10 at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
News, July 12, 2016
Does Osteochondral Allograft Transplant Keep Athletes From Sport? Athletes who undergo a transplantation of osteochondral tissue from a cadaver to repair a knee may return to sport at a rate of 76%, a new study suggests.
News, July 11, 2016
Young Age, Small Grafts, and the Odds of ACL Reconstruction Re-tear Young patients and small grafts may have higher odds of re-tear after an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, new research suggests.
News, July 11, 2016
ENDO Decreased Sexual Activity and Desire May Lead to Lower Testosterone in Older Men In older men, decreased sexual activity and desire may lower serum testosterone, according to new research from Australia.
News, March 17, 2015
RSNA Pituitary Imaging May Help Distinguish PTSD From Mild TBI in Veterans Metabolic abnormalities in the pituitary region of the brain seen on PET/CT may help differentiate veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from those with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
News, December 02, 2014
AHA Vascular Closure Devices vs Manual Compression After PCI Vascular closure devices provide similar outcomes to manual compression for patients undergoing transfemoral coronary angiography, according to results from the ISAR-CLOSURE randomized clinical trial.
News, November 19, 2014
Study Finds Elevated Preeclampsia Risk After Kidney Donation Female kidney donors have a doubled risk of high blood pressure and preeclampsia if they become pregnant, according to a new Canadian study.
News, November 14, 2014
ESMO Failed Cancer Vaccines Might Live Again With New Immune Drugs Using vaccines to fight cancer is a field littered with failures but experts believe it is possible the approach could get a new lease of life if such shots are combined with a new class of drugs called checkpoint inhibitors.
News, September 29, 2014
EASD Novo's Ryzodeg Effective in Type 2 Diabetes Treatment -- Study Novo Nordisk's type 2 diabetes treatment Ryzodeg has proved effective in providing good blood sugar control with fewer injections than basal-bolus treatment, according to new data from a late-stage study.
News, September 18, 2014
FDA Cancer Chief Says 'Escalating' Drug Prices Can't Continue By law, Dr. Richard Pazdur, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's cancer drug czar, is not allowed to consider the cost of treatments his agency reviews, only whether they are safe and effective.
News, June 02, 2014
Social Media Helps Improve Contraceptive Knowledge Providing women with contraceptive information via social media, in combination with traditional in-office counseling, achieved better results than having them read pamphlets.
News, May 05, 2014
In Vitro Skin Sensitivity Assessment Can Sub for Animal Testing A validation study has demonstrated that the testing of chemicals for skin sensitivity on in vitro human cell tissue can achieve similar results to those achieved via animal testing.
News, April 04, 2014
AAOS Joint Replacement Improves Cardiovascular Fitness Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but when you get people moving again by replacing their arthritic hip and knee joints, you also reduce that risk.
News, March 19, 2014
AAOS Outpatient Knee Arthroplasty Has High Readmission Rates Performing total joint arthroplasty (TJA) for knees as a same-day procedure comes with relatively high readmission rates.
News, March 19, 2014
Stress, Lack of Social Support and Prostate Cancer Mortality High levels of perceived stress and lack of social support were associated with higher mortality rates among men with prostate cancer.
News, February 24, 2014
Salvage Endoscopy Viable for Some Esophageal Cancers Salvage endoscopic treatment is a viable option for patients with local failure after definitive chemoradiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
News, January 29, 2014
ASH High Response Rates With Takeda Myeloma Drug: Study Most newly diagnosed patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma had a very strong response to an experimental oral drug being developed by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co when given in combination with standard treatments.
News, December 09, 2013
BPA Excretion After Bariatric Surgery As obese patients lose weight after bariatric surgery, they also excrete more bisphenol A (BPA) in their urine, a new prospective study has found.
News, December 06, 2013
IDF New Data Backs Promise of Long-Acting Lantus Insulin An improved version of Sanofi's diabetes drug Lantus is better than the old one at controlling blood sugar levels and comes with fewer hypoglycemic events, new late-stage trial data showed.
News, December 04, 2013

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