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ASCO guidelines address targeted treatments of HER2-positive breast cancer
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- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: May 9, 2014
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Physical inactivity is the top factor for heart disease in women
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: May 8, 2014
Major finding: Of four cardiovascular risk factors – high BMI, physical inactivity, smoking, and high blood pressure, physical inactivity had the...
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FDA approves umeclidinium for once-daily COPD maintenance
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: May 1, 2014
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Panel recommends against low-dose CT for lung cancer in Medicare patients
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: May 1, 2014
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Medicare asks experts to weigh in on low-dose CT lung cancer screening
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: April 25, 2014
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First reported case of tumor hypoglycemia from recurrent renal cell carcinoma
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: April 17, 2014
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FDA Approves First Grass-pollen Allergy Pill
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: April 14, 2014
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FDA approves Oralair, first grass-pollen allergy pill
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: April 2, 2014
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FDA panel endorses antibacterial dalbavancin
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: April 1, 2014
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FDA panel unanimously supports tedizolid phosphate for severe skin infections
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- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: March 31, 2014
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FDA panel unanimously supports Cologuard colorectal cancer test
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: March 28, 2014
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FDA panel says blood test for colorectal cancer screening is safe, not effective
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: March 27, 2014
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Noninvasive DNA test topped FIT at finding colorectal cancer
- Author:
- Rebecca Kern
Publish date: March 19, 2014
Major finding: A multitarget stool DNA test had significantly greater sensitivity than did a fecal immunochemical test for the detection of...