US health officials have released updated guidance on the use of the influenza vaccine in the United States for the 2011-2012 season. Medscape Medical News
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An individualized treatment plan that outlines treatment goals, medication regimens, and refill details aims to make long-term prescription opioid use safer. Medscape Medical News
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(MedPage Today) — More than three-fourths of U.S. healthcare workers turn to complementary and alternative medicine, quite often to alleviate anxiety, according to a new analysis.
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(MedPage Today) — Reported cases of Legionnaire’s disease and related illnesses in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2000 to 2009, at least partly because of the country’s aging population, researchers said.
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(MedPage Today) — Reform, not repeal, offers the best hope to improve the military’s disability system, striking a balance between veterans’ rights and malpractice protection for military physicians, health policy specialists suggested.
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(MedPage Today) — Seniors are less likely to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan when they have too many options to choose from, according to a new study.
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(MedPage Today) — The FDA has approved the biologic drug brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) for treating Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a rare cousin, systemic anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL).
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VOA News examines the ethics of conducting clinical drug trials in developing countries, particularly in Africa. Several international ethical frameworks outline guidelines for clinical trials, “including the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki and the WHO’s Good Clinical Practice Guidelines,” but they are not mandatory, the news service writes.
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A team of researchers comparing the two leading treatment approaches for the eye condition uveitis, which is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the US, have found that a time-release corticosteroid implant placed surgically in the eye is similarly effective in treating the disease as anti-inflammatory corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drugs taken orally. The report [...]
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Amgen today announced that it will present data from several Prolia (denosumab) studies, including eight year efficacy and safety data from a Phase 2 extension study in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis with low bone mineral density (BMD), at the 2011 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif. from [...]
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