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• Awareness during general anesthesia ‘may be underestimated’
• Scabies link with pemphigoid investigated
• CMV posterior eye infection can occur without immune compromise
• Prophylactic antibiotic timing may not affect surgery infection risk
• Dispute over biannual breast screening
• Monitoring needs to be part of posaconazole use in cancer patients
• Dispute over biannual breast screening
• Metabolic factors increase risk for RCC
• Timing of cytoreductive nephrectomy impacts survival in mRCC
• Lymphatic invasion limited for predicting post-surgical RCC outcome
• Scabies link with pemphigoid investigated
• Meniscal tear strategies questioned for osteoarthritis patients
• Adverse kidney disease outcomes linked to blood pressure in African Americans

Awareness during general anesthesia ‘may be underestimated’ Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT There is a low rate of accidental awareness during general anesthesia in the UK, survey results show.

Scabies link with pemphigoid investigated Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Research suggests that patients who experience scabies infection may be at increased risk for developing the autoimmune blistering skin condition bullous pemphigoid.

CMV posterior eye infection can occur without immune compromise Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Cytomegalovirus-associated posterior uveitis or panuveitis may occur in patients without evidence of immune insufficiency and is characterized by vitreous inflammation, researchers report.

Prophylactic antibiotic timing may not affect surgery infection risk Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT The timing of prophylactic antibiotic administration does not appear to influence a patient's risk for surgical site infection, say US researchers.

Dispute over biannual breast screening Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Screening women aged 50 to 74 years old for breast cancer every 2 years is as effective as annual screening but reduces the rate of false–positive diagnoses, conclude the authors of a US study.

Monitoring needs to be part of posaconazole use in cancer patients Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT A phase IV study assessing use of posaconazole in patients with hematologic cancer has identified a potentially serious drug–drug interaction with vincrinstine-based chemotherapy.

Dispute over biannual breast screening Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Screening women aged 50 to 74 years old for breast cancer every 2 years is as effective as annual screening but reduces the rate of false–positive diagnoses, conclude the authors of a US study.

Metabolic factors increase risk for RCC Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have found that high levels of several metabolic factors increase the risk for renal cell carcinoma, giving further impetus for attempting to control such factors, which have already been associated with other adverse health outcomes.

Timing of cytoreductive nephrectomy impacts survival in mRCC Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who respond to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy may have better outcomes if they are treated with this targeted therapy before rather than after cytoreductive nephrectomy, study findings show.

Lymphatic invasion limited for predicting post-surgical RCC outcome Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Microvascular and capillary-lymphatic invasion are both associated with patient outcome following nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma, but their clinical utility may be limited for different reasons, say researchers.

Scabies link with pemphigoid investigated Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Research suggests that patients who experience scabies infection may be at increased risk for developing the autoimmune blistering skin condition bullous pemphigoid.

Meniscal tear strategies questioned for osteoarthritis patients Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT Trial findings support the use of physical therapy for the primary treatment of symptomatic meniscal tear in patients with mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis, with arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) as a second-line option.

Adverse kidney disease outcomes linked to blood pressure in African Americans Posted: 21 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT African–American individuals who have chronic kidney disease are at a greater risk for mortality the more varied their systolic blood pressure is, report researchers.

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