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Secure Messaging Viable for Diabetes Support
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: There were no significant differences in completion of type 2 diabetes self-management milestones between patients using secure...
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Only half of at-risk adults being screened for diabetes
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Only around half of adults who meet the criteria for high-risk screening for type 2 diabetes are receiving testing, irrespective of...
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Only Half of At-risk Adults Being Screened for Diabetes
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Only around half of adults who meet the criteria for high-risk screening for type 2 diabetes are receiving testing, irrespective of...
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Bariatric surgery benefits in type 2 diabetes linked to disease duration
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Type 2 diabetes remission persisted after 2 and 15 years in 72% and 31% of bariatric surgery patients, vs. 16% and 7% of matched...
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Gastric banding benefited overweight, not just obese in type 2 diabetes
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Laparoscopic gastric banding resulted in significant weight loss (11 kg vs. 1 kg) and remission of diabetes (52% vs. 8%) at 2 years...
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Simple intensity-modulated radiotherapy improves breast cancer cosmesis
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Significantly fewer patients in the IMRT arm had suboptimal overall cosmesis (OR, 0.65; 95%CI, 0.44 to 0.98; P = .038) and skin...
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Radiological guidance does not improve tracheobronchial stent insertion (copy 1)
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: The average length of stay following tracheobronchial stent insertion was 2.73 days in the radiologically-guided group and 2.26...
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Radiological guidance does not improve tracheobronchial stent insertion
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: The average length of stay following tracheobronchial stent insertion was 2.73 days in the radiologically-guided group and 2.26...
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Partial pleurectomy improved quality of life but not survival in mesothelioma
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Pleural effusion was controlled at 1 month in 37% of patients in the talc group and in 59% of patients in the pleurectomy group (P...
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HPV prevalent in Hispanic nonsmokers with EGFR-positive lung cancer
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Progression-free survival was significantly greater in patients who were EGFR-positive/HPV-positive, compared with those who were...
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Inspiratory muscle training improved subjective breathlessness in lung cancer
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Inspiratory muscle training with a pressure threshold device improved self-reported patient measures of breathlessness and other...
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Cetuximab adds no benefit in stage III unresectable lung cancer
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Median survival in patients randomized to cetuximab was 23.1 months, compared with 23.5 months in patients not taking cetuximab;...
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Limited neonatal benefit from later delivery in congenital heart disease
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: There were no significant differences between 2004-2008 and 2010 data in 5-minute APGAR scores (8.5 vs. 8.6; P = .11), median...
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One-third of cancer patients over age 70 went untreated, Swedish study finds
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Nearly one-third (32.2%) of 659 patients over age 70 with non–small cell lung cancer received no radiotherapy or chemotherapy.Data...
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Stereotactic lung radiotherapy of central lung tumors can achieve good overall survival with limited toxicity
- Author:
- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Overall survival at 3 years was similar for 100 centrally located non–small cell lung cancers – defined as being located within 2...