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Fri, Feb 3 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

3 Feb, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs to Possible Alzheimer’s Disease and Kidney Problems: Doctors and patients are grappling with the unsettling finding that chronic use of popular heartburn medicines may be riskier than was thought – Scientific American

 

2 – Hormone Blockers Can Prolong Life if Prostate Cancer Recurs – The New York Times

 

3 – Radiation with or without Antiandrogen Therapy in Recurrent Prostate Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (Link to abstract – $ required for full-text)

 

4 – Three ways you can just say no to antibiotic drug abuse – The Conversation (RT @Onisillos)

 

5 – ‘Kangaroo mother care’ helps preterm babies survive … but offers benefits for all – The Conversation

 

6 – Richard Lehman’s journal review-30 January 2017 – The BMJ Blog Archive

 

7 – ‘We simply don’t know’: Egg donors face uncertain long-term risks – STAT News

 

8 – Comparison of adjuvant gemcitabine and capecitabine with gemcitabine monotherapy in patients with resected pancreatic cancer (ESPAC-4): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial – The Lancet

 

9 – Related Commentary: Pancreatic cancer: are more chemotherapy and surgery needed? – The Lancet

 

10 – Trial finds combination of pancreatic cancer drugs extends survival – The Guardian

 


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