Diabetes

Serum marker predicts cardiovascular events in diabetes

(HealthDay)—Elevated levels of polyclonal serum immunoglobulin combined free light chains (cFLCs) may indicate adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to research published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Liver transplant outcomes worse for nonoverweight NAFLD patients

(HealthDay)—Nonoverweight patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) cirrhosis who are on the transplant wait list have worse pre- and post-liver transplant (LT) outcomes, according to a study presented at The ...

Oncology & Cancer

Exercise cuts cardiac events in non-metastatic breast cancer

(HealthDay)—For patients with non-metastatic breast cancer, exercise is associated with reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular events, according to a study published online May 23 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Pediatrics

Drop in proportion of neonates with long IV therapy for UTI

(HealthDay)—From 2005 to 2015 there was a decrease in the proportion of infants aged ≤60 days with a urinary tract infection (UTI) who received four or more days of intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a study published ...

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