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  • Income, age, lack of rheumatologist visits associated with less DMARD use among patients with RA

  • March 22, 2013
  • Medicare patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were older, had lower incomes and did not visit rheumatologists were less likely to use disease-modifying...More »
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  • No significant adverse effects seen with continuous clopidogrel treatment for hip fracture patients

  • March 22, 2013
  • CHICAGO — Researchers found no significant complications with continued administration of clopidogrel perioperatively in geriatric patients who...More »
  • Report finds dementia-related disease second largest cause of death in US

  • March 20, 2013
  • Some form of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease now claims the life of one in three senior citizens in the United States, making dementia the second...More »
  • In the Journals Perspective
  • Prescriber, not patient characteristics influenced antibiotic duration

  • March 19, 2013
  • In long-term care facilities, patients are often prescribed a long duration of antibiotics based on the prescriber’s preference, not patient...More »
  • In the Journals Perspective
  • Prescriber, not patient characteristics influenced antibiotic duration

  • Infectious Disease News, May 2013
  • In long-term care facilities, patients are often prescribed a long duration of antibiotics based on the prescriber’s preference, not patient...More »
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  • Corticosteroids relieved rotator cuff tear pain in geriatric patients

  • March 15, 2013
  • Italian researchers found in a recent study that intraarticular corticosteroid injections relieved pain in geriatric patients with rotator cuff tears and...More »
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  • Anesthesia assistance during colonoscopy may lead to more post-procedure complications

  • March 15, 2013
  • Patients who received deep sedation anesthesia while undergoing colonoscopy were more likely to experience post-procedure complications, although the risk...More »
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  • BLOG: Some providers notified of 'random' EHR prepayment audits

  • March 14, 2013
  • From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes timely views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s...More »
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  • QOL after stenting equally improved in octogenarians as younger patients

  • March 14, 2013
  • A systematic review has concluded that stent procedures improve quality of life in octogenarians as much as it does in younger patients.
    Researchers...More »
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  • FDA plans to relax rules on Alzheimer’s drug approvals

  • March 14, 2013
  • The FDA is set to ease restrictions on drug approvals for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, proposing that companies will not have to...More »
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  • New eye test may provide accurate, low cost mode of diagnosing Alzheimer's

  • May 23, 2013
  • Swift international response investigation underway for H7N9 outbreak

  • April 24, 2013
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  • Extraesophageal Manifestations of GERD

  • Anthony J DiMarino Jr, MD; Sidney Cohen, MD
    2013; ISBN 1-61711-621-1
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  • Control of polypharmacy, drug interactions key components in treatment of geriatric population

  • May 21, 2013
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  • New eye test may provide accurate, low cost mode of diagnosing Alzheimer's

  • May 23, 2013
  • More than half of health care providers now using EHRs

  • May 20, 2013

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