Drug combination slows breast cancer spread
A combination of two drugs delays progression of advanced, aggressive breast cancer by an average of nine months - working in all subsets of the most common type of breast cancer.
Mar 2, 2016
Archive: 02/03/2016
Researchers urged to share landmark trial data on safety of starch solutions
A group of researchers are today being urged to share their data for a landmark trial that raised safety concerns about the use of starch solutions.
Mar 2, 2016
Hypothermia during surgery linked with increased risk for infection
A Henry Ford Hospital finds that hypothermia, a relatively common but unintentional occurrence during surgery, is associated with an increased risk for infection in patients who undergo surgery to repair a hip fracture.
Mar 2, 2016
Moderate drinking has risks and benefits, heavy drinking heightens short- and long-term risk of heart attack, stroke
Drinking alcohol is associated with an immediate higher risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. The risk lessens and can become protective after 24 hours for moderate drinking but remains high for heavy drinking, according ...
Mar 2, 2016
Clinical trial confirms safety of inducing mothers aged 35 and over to avoid stillbirth and other complications
A large clinical trial to assess the benefits or otherwise of inducing labour in pregnant women of 35 years or older has found there was no significant effect on the rate of caesarean sections and no adverse effect on the ...
Mar 2, 2016
Senate rejects adding $600M to anti-heroin legislation
The Senate Wednesday rejected a Democratic effort to add $600 million to a bipartisan bill targeting heroin and opioid abuse.
Mar 2, 2016
Nurse staffing levels key to keeping rehospitalizations down for hip/knee surgery patients
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) shows that patients, who undergo elective hip and knee surgery in hospitals with inadequate nurse ...
Mar 2, 2016
