For kidney transplant recipients, use of the anti-rejection drug sirolimus may increase the risk of diabetes, according to findings from a large registry study reported in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology for July. Reuters Health Information
The screening tool asks respondents to rate feeling overwhelmed by the demands of living with diabetes and feelings of often failing with the diabetes regimen. Medscape Medical News
A radiation therapy study shows that adding 4 months of androgen deprivation therapy to external beam radiotherapy dramatically improves some clinically meaningful endpoints in prostate cancer. Medscape Medical News
High clopidogrel maintenance dosing improves platelet inhibition in some diabetics who do not respond adequately to standard doses, according to a report in the February 15th American Journal of Cardiology. Reuters Health Information
Use of 0.625 mg/day of conjugated equine estrogen was associated with a statistically significant increased risk for benign proliferative breast disease. Medscape Medical News
