23Jan/14

New easy-to-use risk calculator helps predict heart failure patients' chances … – News-Medical.net

New easy-to-use risk calculator helps predict heart failure patients’ chances
News-Medical.net
A UCLA team has developed an easy-to-use “risk calculator” that helps predict heart failure patients’ chances of survival for up to five years and assists doctors in determining whether more or less aggressive treatment is appropriate. Given that heart

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23Jan/14

Cycling's longstanding, predictable and troubling relationship with depression – The Guardian

Cycling’s longstanding, predictable and troubling relationship with depression
The Guardian
When l’Equipe published the Index of Suspicion it was accompanied by an article on cortisone abuse by Dr Guillaume, who claimed that the use of corticosteroids was as widespread as it had been in the 1970s and 1980s, when it wrecked the knees of many 

23Jan/14

New pill 'melts away' leukemia without chemotherapy – UPI.com (blog)


Drug Discovery & Development

New pill ‘melts away’ leukemia without chemotherapy
UPI.com (blog)
the most common form of the disease. The findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and show that idelalisib in combination with rituximab could prevent the leukemia from worsening, even in chemotherapy-resistant patients.
A Pill ‘Melts Away’ Common Form of LeukemiaHealthNewsDigest.com

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