A large prospective study of older white women found that hip fractures were 5 times more likely to happen in the year after a proximal humerus fracture. Medscape Medical News
Some patients with serious mental illness take 11 or more medications a day. How do you decide which agents are productive and which are counterproductive? How does concordance affect adherence? Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
A phase I study of SNJ-1656, a selective Rho-associated coiled coil-forming protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, has shown the drug to be both safe and effective in lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in healthy volunteers, according to a double-blind study reported by Japanese researchers in the March issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology. Reuters Health Information
In women with osteoporosis and spinal osteoarthritis, treatment with strontium ranelate may delay radiographic progression of spinal OA and reduce back pain, according to research published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases for March. Reuters Health Information
Extracapsular extension of prostate tumors identified by MRI is a strong predictor of metastatic recurrence following external-beam radiation therapy, according to radiologists at the University of California, San Francisco. Reuters Health Information
Many patients with narcolepsy with cataplexy experience a number of symptoms of eating disorders, according to findings from a Dutch study reported in the March 1st issue of the journal Sleep. Reuters Health Information
