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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jason D. Wright, M.D., email Lucky Tran at cumcnews@columbia.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.9005 Among women undergoing a minimally invasive hysterectomy…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 P.M. (CT) SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Harsha Thirumurthy, Ph.D., call David Pesci at 919-962-2600 or email dpesci@email.unc.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.9087 Among uncircumcised men in…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Steven K. Grinspoon, M.D., call Cassandra Aviles at 617-724-6433 or email cmaviles@partners.org. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.8334 In…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jared M. Baeten, M.D., Ph.D., call Bobbi Nodell at 206-543-7129 or email bnodell@uw.edu. To contact editorial co-author David A. Cooper, M.D., D.Sc., email dcooper@kirby.unsw.edu.au. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Peter MacPherson, Ph.D., email petermacp@gmail.com. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.6493 Among adults in the African country of Malawi offered HIV…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mark S. Sulkowski, M.D., call Lauren Nelson at 410-955-8725 or email lnelso35@jhmi.edu. To contact editorial co-author Michael S. Saag, M.D., email Nicole Wyatt at nwyatt@uab.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Anna Satcher Johnson, M.P.H., call the CDC’s news media line at 404-639-8895 or email NCHHSTPMediaTeam@cdc.gov. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.8534…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, M.D., Ph.D., email jacques-eric.gottenberg@chru-strasbourg.fr; to contact Xavier Mariette, M.D., Ph.D., email xavier.mariette@bct.aphp.fr. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7682…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact co-author Amit X. Garg, M.D., Ph.D., email Julia Capaldi at Julia.Capaldi@LawsonResearch.com. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.2934 A study that included about…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mads E. Jørgensen, M.B., email mads.emil.joergensen@regionh.dk. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.8165 In an analysis that included more than 480,000 patients who…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Kurt Kroenke, M.D., email Lisa Welch at llwelch@regenstrief.org. To contact editorial co-author Gary E. Rosenthal, M.D., email Tom Moore at thomas-moore@uiowa.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D., call Stephanie Desmon at 410-955-7619 or email sdesmon1@jhu.edu. To contact editorial co-author Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., call Lisa Worley at 305-243-5184 or email lworley2@med.miami.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Danny Dvir, M.D., call Dave Lefebvre at 604-682-2344, ext. 66987; or email Dlefebvre@providencehealth.bc.ca. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7246 In an analysis…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Pouya Iranmanesh, M.D., email pouya.iranmanesh@hcuge.ch. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7587   Among patients with possible common duct stones, removal of the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Nikolai Madrid Scheller, M.B., email nmscheller@gmail.com. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.2198 Although some data has suggested a potential association between receipt…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jean Marc Regimbeau, M.D., Ph.D., email regimbeau.jean-marc@chu-amiens.fr. To contact editorial author Joseph S. Solomkin, M.D., call Katy Cosse at 513-558-0207 or email kathryn.cosse@uc.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Coenraad F. N. Koegelenberg, M.D., Ph.D., email coeniefn@sun.ac.za. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7195.   Combining the smoking cessation medication varenicline with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Patrick F. Chinnery, Ph.D., F.R.C.P., F.Med.Sci., email patrick.chinnery@ncl.ac.uk. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7184   Use of exome sequencing improved…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Claudia S. Robertson, M.D., call Graciela Gutierrez at 713-798-4710 or email ggutierr@bcm.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.6490 In patients with a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Andrew X. Zhu, M.D., Ph.D., call Katie Marquedant at 617-726-0337 or email KMarquedant@mgh.harvard.edu. To place an electronic embedded link to this study in your story  This link for the study will be live at the embargo time: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2014.7189   Despite strong…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Matthew M. Hsieh, M.D., or corresponding author John F. Tisdale, M.D., call Krysten Carrera at 301-435-8112 or email krysten.carrera@nih.gov. To contact editorial co-author John F. DiPersio, M.D., Ph.D., call Jim Goodwin at 314-286-0166 or email jgoodwin@wustl.edu. To place an electronic embedded…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jacob M. van Laar, M.D., Ph.D., email j.m.vanlaar@umcutrecht.nl; or Dominique Farge, M.D., Ph.D., email dominique.farge-bancel@sls.aphp.fr. To contact editorial co-author Dinesh Khanna, M.D., M.Sc., call Beata Mostafavi at 734-764-2220 or email bmostafa@med.umich.edu. Among patients with a severe, life-threatening type of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mark D. Neuman, M.D., M.Sc., call Lee-Ann Donegan at 215-349-5660 or email Leeann.Donegan@uphs.upenn.edu. Among more than 56,000 adults undergoing hip repair between 2004 and 2011, the use of regional anesthesia compared with general anesthesia was not associated with a lower risk…

Media Advisory: To contact Sarah M. Friedewald, M.D., call Mickey Ramirez at 847-723-5637 or email Mickey.Ramirez@advocatehealth.com. To contact editorial co-author Etta D. Pisano, M.D., call Deborah Reynolds at 843-324-0984 or email reynodh@musc.edu.   The addition of tomosynthesis, a 3-dimensional breast imaging technique, to digital mammography in more than 170,000 examinations was associated with a decrease…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Richard D. Carvajal, M.D., call Courtney DeNicola Nowak at 212-639-3573 or email denicolc@mskcc.org.   In patients with advanced uveal melanoma, treatment with the agent selumetinib, compared with chemotherapy, resulted in an improved cancer progression-free survival time and tumor response rate, but…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Nynne Nyboe Andersen, M.D., email nyna@ssi.dk.   In a study that included more than 56,000 patients with inflammatory bowel disease, use of a popular class of medications known as tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists was not associated with an increased risk…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., call Todd Datz at 617-432-8413 or email tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu.   Findings of a large survey indicate that since 2010, when young adults could be covered under their parents’ health insurance plans until age 26, self-reported health among this group…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jay Giri, M.D., M.P.H., call Lee-Ann Donegan at 215-349-5660 or email Leeann.donegan@uphs.upenn.edu. To contact editorial author Joshua A. Beckman, M.D., call Jessica Maki at 617-525-6373 or email jmaki3@partners.org.   In an analysis that included data from 16 trials performed…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mikael Knip, M.D., D.M.Sc., email mikael.knip@helsinki.fi. Among infants at risk for type 1 diabetes, the use of a hydrolyzed formula (one that does not contain intact proteins) compared with a conventional formula did not reduce the incidence of diabetes-associated autoantibodies after…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D., call Haley Bridger at 617-714-7968 or email hbridger@broadinstitute.org. A genetic analysis of DNA samples of approximately 3,700 Mexican and U.S. Latino individuals identified a gene variant that was associated with a 5-fold increase in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Kasia J. Lipska, M.D., M.H.S., call Helen Dodson at 203-436-3984 or email helen.dodson@yale.edu. Largely attributable to the widespread adoption of insulin analogs, use of insulin among patients with type 2 diabetes increased from 10 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Christianne L. Roumie, M.D., M.P.H., call Craig Boerner at 615-322-4747 or email craig.boerner@vanderbilt.edu. To contact editorial author Monika M. Safford, M.D., call Bob Shepard at 205-934-8934 or email bshep@uab.edu. Among patients with diabetes who were receiving metformin, the addition of insulin…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Lars Sjostrom, M.D., Ph.D., email lars.v.sjostrom@medfak.gu.se.   In a study that included long-term follow-up of obese patients with type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery was associated with more frequent diabetes remission and fewer complications than patients who received usual care, according to…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 5:45 A.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D., call Barbara Benham at 410-614-6029 or email bbenham1@jhu.edu. Developing therapies for kidney disease can be made faster by adopting a new, more sensitive definition of kidney disease progression, according to a study published by JAMA. The…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Yaron Finkelstein, M.D., call Suzanne Gold at 416-813-7654, ext. 202059, or email suzanne.gold@sickkids.ca. Individuals who are hospitalized for the skin conditions of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis appear to have a high risk of recurrence, according to a study in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Eric M. Mortensen, M.D., M.Sc., call Penny Kerby at 214-857-1155 or email Penny.Kerby@va.gov. In a study that included nearly 65,000 older patients hospitalized with pneumonia, treatment that included azithromycin compared with other antibiotics was associated with a significantly lower risk of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Sana M. Al-Khatib, M.D., M.H.S., call Rachel Harrison at 919-419-5069 or email rachel.harrison@duke.edu. An examination of the benefit of preventive placement of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in patients with a less severe level of heart failure, a group not well represented in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mark D. Neuman, M.D., M.Sc., email neumanm@mail.med.upenn.edu or call 215-760-7471; or email Jessica Mikulski at Jessica.Mikulski@uphs.upenn.edu or call 215-796-4829. To contact editorial author Paul G. Shekelle, M.D., Ph.D., call Warren Robak at 310-451-6913 or email robak@rand.org. An analysis of more than…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Peter B. Cotton, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., call Heather Woolwine at 843-792-7669 or email woolwinh@musc.edu. In certain patients with abdominal pain after gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy), undergoing an endoscopic procedure involving the bile and pancreatic ducts did not result in fewer days with…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 1 P.M. (ET) TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Marco Pahor, M.D., call Morgan Sherburne at 352-273-6160 or email msherburne@ufl.edu. Among older adults at risk of disability, participation in a structured moderate-intensity physical activity program, compared with a health education intervention, significantly reduced the risk of major mobility disability…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H., call Dacia Morris at 646-774-8724 or email morrisd@nyspi.columbia.edu. To contact editorial author Donald C. Goff, M.D., call Lorinda Klein at 212-404-3533 or email Lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org.   Among adults with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, treatment with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Mark G. Kris, M.D., call Melissa Morgenweck at 646-227-3633 or email morgenwm@mskcc.org. To contact editorial co-author Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., call Marguerite Beck at 336-716-2415 or email marbeck@wakehealth.edu.   Multiplexed testing of lung cancer tumors identified genetic alterations that were helpful…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jeffrey A. Linder, M.D., M.P.H., call Jessica Maki at 617-525-6373 or email jmaki3@partners.org. Despite clear evidence of ineffectiveness, guidelines and more than 15 years of educational efforts stating that the antibiotic prescribing rate for acute bronchitis should be zero, the rate…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Kim L. Bennell, Ph.D., email k.bennell@unimelb.edu.au.   Among adults with painful hip osteoarthritis, physical therapy did not result in greater improvement in pain or function compared with a placebo treatment, but was associated with relatively frequent but mild adverse effects, raising…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 4 P.M. (CT) MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Rupert M. Pearse, M.D., email r.pearse@qmul.ac.uk. To contact editorial author Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, M.D., call Sarah Avery at 919-660-1306 or email sarah.avery@duke.edu.   In a study that included high-risk patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery, the use of a cardiac-output guided intervention…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 4 P.M. (CT) SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Cindy T. McEvoy, M.D., M.C.R., call Tamara Hargens-Bradley at 503-494-8231 or email hargenst@ohsu.edu. To contact editorial author Graham L. Hall, Ph.D., email graham.hall@telethonkids.org.au. Supplemental vitamin C taken by pregnant smokers improved measures of lung function for newborns and decreased the…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 4 P.M. (CT) SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Vincent Liu, M.D., M.S., call Ann Wallace at 510-891-3653 or email ann.m.wallace@kp.org. An analysis that included approximately 7 million hospitalizations finds that sepsis contributed to 1 in every 2 to 3 deaths, and most of these patients had sepsis at…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 4 P.M. (CT) SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Tonya S. King, Ph.D., call Matthew Solovey at 717-531-0003, ext. 287127, or email msolovey@hmc.psu.edu. In adults with persistent asthma and low vitamin D levels, treatment with vitamin D3 did not reduce the rate of treatment failure or exacerbation…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jennifer R. Marin, M.D., M.Sc., call Anita Srikameswaran at 412-578-9193 or email srikamav@upmc.edu. Between 2006 and 2010, there was a nearly 30 percent increase in the rate of visits to an emergency department for traumatic brain injury, which may be attributable…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Mark N. Levine, M.D., call Veronica McGuire at 905-525-9140, ext. 22169; or email vmcguir@mcmaster.ca. Among patients with a certain type of colorectal cancer with limited spread to the liver, imaging using positron emission tomography and computed tomography (CT) before…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Patrick S.F. Bellgowan, Ph.D., call Hannah Jackson at 918-430-3011 or email hjackson@stfpr.com. Preliminary research finds that within a group of collegiate football players, those who experienced a concussion or had been playing for more years had smaller hippocampal volume…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Daniel E. Jonas, M.D., M.P.H., call Thania Benios at 919-962-8596 or email thania_benios@unc.edu. To contact editorial co-author Katharine A. Bradley, M.D., M.P.H., call Rebecca Hughes at 206-287-2055 or email hughes.r@ghc.org.   An analysis of more than 120 studies that examined the…

Media Advisory: To contact Jennifer G. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H., call Jennifer Brown at 319-356-7124 or email jennifer-l-brown@uiowa.edu. Among patients with high cholesterol receiving moderate- or high-intensity statin therapy, the addition of the human monoclonal antibody evolocumab resulted in additional lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, according to a study in the May 14 issue…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jorge A. Bezerra, M.D., call Nick Miller at 513-803-6035 or email nicholas.miller@cchmc.org. Among infants who underwent surgery to repair bile ducts that do not drain properly (biliary atresia), the administration of high-dose steroid therapy following surgery did not significantly improve…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Daniel K. Benjamin Jr., M.D., Ph.D., call Sarah Avery at 919-660-1306 or email sarah.avery@duke.edu. Use of the antifungal medication fluconazole for six weeks for extremely low birth-weight infants did not significantly reduce the risk of death or invasive candidiasis, a…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Flor M. Munoz, M.D., call Dipali Pathak at 713-798-4710 or email pathak@bcm.edu. To contact editorial co-author Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D., call Craig Boerner at 615-322-4747 or email craig.boerner@vanderbilt.edu. A preliminary study finds that receipt of the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Sarah D. de Ferranti, M.D., M.P.H., call Rob Graham at 617-919-3110 or email Rob.graham@childrens.harvard.edu.   Although some guidelines recommend lipid screening for children and adolescents of certain ages, data indicate that only about 3 percent are having their…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Maria Makrides, B.Sc., B.N.D., Ph.D., email maria.makrides@health.sa.gov.au. Although there are recommendations for pregnant women to increase their intake of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) to improve fetal brain development, a randomized trial finds that prenatal DHA supplementation did…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Sven Sandin, M.Sc., email Sven.Sandin@ki.se. To contact editorial co-author Diana E. Schendel, Ph.D., email diana.schendel@folkesundhed.au.dk.   The risk of autism may be influenced equally by genetic and environmental factors; in addition, a sibling of a family member with autism has…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Dana Dabelea, M.D., Ph.D., call Tonya Ewers at 303-724-8573 or email tonya.ewers@ucdenver.edu. In a study that included data from more than three million children and adolescents from diverse geographic regions of the United States, researchers found that the prevalence of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact James M. Chamberlain, M.D., call Joe Cantlupe at 202-476-4500 or email JCantlupe@childrensnational.org.   Although some studies have suggested that the drug lorazepam may be more effective or safer than the drug diazepam in treating a type of epileptic seizures among children,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Martin Ebinger, M.D., email martin.ebinger@charite.de.   Using an ambulance that included a computed tomography (CT) scanner, point-of-care laboratory, telemedicine connection and a specialized prehospital stroke team resulted in decreased time to treatment for ischemic stroke, according to a study in the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Winston Chiong, M.D., Ph.D., call Laura Kurtzman at 415-476-3163 or email Laura.Kurtzman@ucsf.edu.   The majority of adults surveyed indicated they would want administration of clot-dissolving medications if incapacitated by a stroke, a finding that supports clinicians’ use of this treatment if…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Michael Wall, M.D., call Jennifer Brown at 319- 356-7124 or email jennifer-l-brown@uiowa.edu. To contact editorial author Jonathan C. Horton, M.D., Ph.D., call Juliana Bunim at 415-476-8810 or email juliana.bunim@ucsf.edu. In patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and mild vision loss, the use…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Ph.D., email Jen Middleton at jen.middleton@ed.ac.uk.   Patients with arteriovenous malformations (abnormal connection between arteries and veins) in the brain that have not ruptured had a lower risk of stroke or death for up to 12 years if…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., call Kim Irwin at 310-794-2262 or email kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu. To contact editorial author James C. Grotta, M.D., call Alex Rodriguez Loessin at 713-704-1222 or email alex.loessin@memorialhermann.org. In a study that included more than 71,000 stroke patients, implementation of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Donald S. A. McLeod, F.R.A.C.P., M.P.H., email donald.mcleod@qimrberghofer.edu.au.   An analysis that included active military personnel finds that the rate of the thyroid disorder Graves disease is more common among blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders compared with whites, according to a study…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Dagfinn Aune, M.S., email d.aune@imperial.ac.uk. Higher maternal body mass index (BMI) before or in early pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of fetal death, stillbirth, and infant death, with women who are severely obese having the greatest risk of these…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Steven D. Pearson, M.D., M.Sc., call Molly Hooven at 301-594-5789 or email Molly.Hooven@nih.gov. In the creation of lists by specialty societies of medical services deemed least beneficial (the “Choosing Wisely” initiative), inclusion was often justified by evidence suggesting no additional benefit…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Dong-Wan Kim, M.D., Ph.D., email kimdw@snu.ac.kr.   Among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer without a mutation of a certain gene (EGFR), conventional chemotherapy, compared with treatment using epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, was associated with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Walid F. Gellad, M.D., M.P.H., call Allison Hydzik at 412-647-9975 or email hydzikam@upmc.edu. About 40 percent of pharmaceutical company boards of directors examined had at least one member who held a leadership position at an academic medical center, with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D., call Beata Mostafavi at 734- 764-2220 or email bmostafa@umich.edu. To contact editorial author Jeffrey L. Carson, M.D., call Jennifer Forbes at 732-235-6356 or email jenn.forbes@rwjms.rutgers.edu.   Restricting red blood cell (RBC) transfusions among hospitalized patients…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Thomas M. Pisansky, M.D., call Joe Dangor at 507-266-0696 or email dangor.yusuf@mayo.edu. Among men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, daily use of the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, compared with placebo, did not prevent loss of erectile function, according to a…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 7 A.M. (CT) SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact A. Michael Lincoff, M.D., call Wyatt DuBois at 216-904-3344 or email DUBOISW@ccf.org.   Use of the drug aleglitazar, which has shown the ability to lower glucose levels and have favorable effects on cholesterol, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular…