Archive: 11/08/2015
Experts suggest upgrades to current heart disease prevention guideline
Acknowledging key strengths and "lessons learned," preventive cardiologists from Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic have developed a short list of suggested upgrades to the controversial heart disease prevention guidelines issued ...
Aug 11, 2015
Georgia dialysis facility referral rate for kidney transplants is low and variable
Although kidney transplantation is known to be the optimal treatment for most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), only about one in four patients with ESRD in Georgia was referred by a dialysis facility to a transplant ...
Aug 11, 2015
Study examines high-risk therapeutic medical devices receiving FDA premarket approval
Of high-risk therapeutic devices approved via the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket Approval (PMA) pathway between 2010 and 2011, there has been wide variation in both the number and quality of premarket and postmarket ...
Aug 11, 2015
In vitro fertilization using frozen eggs associated with lower live birth rates
Compared to using fresh oocytes (eggs) for in vitro fertilization, use of cryopreserved (frozen) donor oocytes in 2013 was associated with lower live birth rates, according to a study in the August 11 issue of JAMA.
Aug 11, 2015