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News from Renal and Urology News

HIFU Salvage Following EBRT Offers Good PCa Control

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) provides shows promise as a salvage treatment option men with recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) following external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), data presented at the American Urological Association annual meeting suggest.
 

PCa-Specific Survival Can Be Good Even with Positive Nodes

Prostate cancer (PCa) patients with lymph node positive disease found at radical prostatectomy (RP) can experience durable cancer-specific and metastases-free survival, researchers reported at the American Urological Association 2012 annual meeting.
 

Cure Possible Despite Positive Lymph Nodes

Long-term PSA relapse-free survival after radical prostatectomy (RP) and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) is possible in a subset of patients with low volume nodal metastases, a researcher reported at the American Urological Association 2012 annual meeting.
 

ADT Prior to Salvage Cryo Does Not Improve BFS

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) prior to salvage cryotherapy does not improve biochemical-free survival (BFS) at five years, according to data presented at the American Urological Association 2012 annual meeting.
 

News from The Clinical Advisor

Azithromycin linked to increased cardiovascular mortality

The FDA is reviewing the risk for sudden cardiac death among patients taking azithromycin.
 

Acupuncture improved dyspnea on exertion in COPD

After 12 weeks of acupuncture patients with COPD had better Borg scale score and improved walk distance on the six-minute walk test compared to those assigned to placebo.
 

Air pollution linked to CV risk markers

Biomarkers for cardiovascular risk factors in healthy young people correlated with a reduction in air pollution during Beijing's 2008 Olympic games.
 

Low back pain improves soon after treatment, but still lingers

Pain, disability improve early on, but persist for those with acute or persistent low back pain.
 

The Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants

Managing your digital footprints: How to use social media intelligently

As the use of social media increases and communication boundaries blur, PAs should understand what information can be shared online.
 

Disclosure of medical errors: The right thing to do

Honest disclosure of medical errors that harm patients is every physician assistant's professional responsibility.
 

Are you using checklists? Check!

A checklist is a simple tool that can enhance clinical practice and ensure patient safety in many clinical settings.
 

Health care volunteerism: What PAs need to know before making a trip

The Professional Practice Council provides an overview of what to consider before joining a short-term global health care mission.
 

News from Oncology Nurse Advisor

ASCO: Crizotinib tolerated, active in pediatric patients

Crizotinib active in anaplastic large cell lymphoma; neuroblastoma; other tumors with ALK mutations.
 

Adjuvant radiochemotherapy has lasting benefit in gastric cancer

Patients with gastric cancer who undergo resection show survival benefit 10 years later.
 

ASCO: Oncologists better ID long-term effects of chemo

Very few primary care physicians identified main late or long-term effects of four chemo drugs.
 

SPECT/CT guides postop management of thyroid cancer

Information from SPECT/ CT scans helps determine the need for radioiodine therapy in persons with thyroid cancer and influences follow-up strategy.
 

Updated Charts

Osteoporosis Treatments

Osteoporosis treatment chart.
 

Mood Disorder Treatments

Mood disorder treatments for bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, treatment resistant depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and others.
 

Dosing and Titration of Commonly Used Antipsychotics

Antipsychotic dosing and titration chart of commonly used first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics.
 

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