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Direct-to-consumer advertising of asthma medications is associated with increased emergency department utilization among commercially insured patients

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Asthma Meds Ups ER Use

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Advertising linked to increase in pharmacy sales; emergency room visits for commercially insured
One in 10 acute myocardial infarction patients without a previous diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (DM) have underlying DM

One in 10 AMI Patients Have Unrecognized Incident Diabetes

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Few not recognized as having DM during hospitalization on meds six months after discharge
An abridged version of the 2015 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes has been produced for primary care physicians. The condensed guidelines were published in the April issue of Clinical Diabetes.

Abridged Standards of Care for Diabetes Developed for PCPs

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Abridged version specifically focuses on evidence-based recommendations for primary care
For patients with early Hodgkin's lymphoma who have negative findings on positron-emission tomography after three cycles of chemotherapy

Post-Chemo Radiation May Not Be Needed in Early Hodgkin’s

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For patients with negative PET after chemo, no further treatment was not noninferior to radiation
Prednisolone and pentoxifylline are associated with limited and no benefits

Prednisolone, Pentoxifylline Little Use in Alcoholic Hepatitis

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Nonsignificant drop in 28-day mortality with prednisolone; no improvement with pentoxifylline
A brief

DMV Program Can Generate Additional Organ Donors

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Customers of DMV staff who received training more likely to register as organ donors
Between 2001 and 2013

Doctors May Be Caught Off Guard by Antibiotic Shortages

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Multiple shortages of 32 antibiotics, which lasted an average of six months
For girls and young women with type 1 diabetes

Eating Disorders Common in Girls With Type 1 Diabetes

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By age 25 years, cumulative probability of onset of eating disorder is 60 percent
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is as effective as antidepressant medication in preventing a recurrence of depression over a two-year period

Mindfulness-Based CBT Found As Effective As Antidepressants

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Results suggest possible alternative to long-term medication use
Despite evidence that has suggested metformin might have potential in cancer

AACR: Metformin Benefit Lacking in Pancreatic Ductal CA

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Survival not significantly different for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients