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FDA Panel Rejects Cell Culture Flu Vaccine, Wants More Safety DataEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- With members citing unanswered safety questions, an FDA advisory panel today narrowly rejected approval of the nation's first cell-based influenza vaccine -- an alternative to vaccines produced by the traditional, time-consuming method of growing the virus in eggs. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

FDA Panel Considers New Cell-Based Flu VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel is considering approval of the nation's first cell-based influenza vaccine -- an alternative to vaccines produced by the traditional, time-consuming method of growing the virus in eggs. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

FDA Panel Votes in Favor of New Strep Pneumoniae VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) -- A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has voted to recommend approval of an updated version of the Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine Prevnar. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 18, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Senators Blame HHS for Mishandling H1N1 Vaccination EffortEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Senators on the Homeland Security Committee scolded Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Tuesday for overly optimistic estimates of pandemic H1N1 flu vaccine supplies. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 17, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

FDA Panel to Vote on Updated Strep pneumoniae VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel will decide Wednesday whether to recommend approval of a new version of the popular Streptococcus pneumoniae children's vaccine Prevnar. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 17, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

AHA: Novel Antiplatelet Effective in STEMI Patients (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Researchers said that when the investigational platelet aggregation inhibitor ticagrelor was administered to patients with high-risk acute coronary syndromes, the outcomes appeared better than treatment with clopidogrel (Plavix) -- a finding that mirrored results on the larger, previously reported study. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

H1N1 6-Month Toll 22 Million, CDC EstimatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the first six months of the H1N1 flu pandemic, 22 million Americans fell ill from the virus, the CDC now estimates. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 12, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Walking Speed Predicts CV Death in Seniors (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Slow walking speed among older adults may be a harbinger of death, particularly that of cardiovascular causes, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 11, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

FDA Attempts to Ease H1N1 Vaccine FearsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The FDA has reached out in an attempt to ease safety fears over the 2009 H1N1 vaccine, this time to healthcare professionals. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 10, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ASTRO: Tremors Respond to Radiosurgery Treatment (CME/CE, with video)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Radiosurgery for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and trigeminal neuralgia offers efficacy and safety that compare favorably with other treatment options, investigators reported here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 10, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Low Fat Intake Sweetens Dieters' Mood (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Restricting fat rather than carbohydrate intake may make dieting easier on the mood, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 9, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

CHEST: Drug Brings Wake-Up Call in Depression and OSA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Armodafinil (Nuvigil) may bring relief of residual excessive sleepiness to patients with depression and obstructive sleep apnea, a multicenter, randomized trial showed. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 6, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Vaccine Effective Against Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An experimental vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) can produce complete responses in some patients with precancers, Dutch researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 4, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

CHEST: Treating Sleep Apnea May Improve Golf Scores (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- In addition to improved health, a better golf game may await players who seek help for untreated obstructive sleep apnea, a pilot study showed. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 3, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Statins Protect Against Parkinson's Progression in Mice (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Statins may slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by preventing the cascade of inflammatory damage to neurons that eventually leads to motor dysfunction, according to a mouse model study. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 2, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Vascular Factors and Inflammation Predict Later Alzheimer's (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The presence of hypertension, atherosclerosis, and certain markers of inflammation in midlife were early signals of later-life Alzheimer's disease, a Dutch family study found. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - November 2, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

IDSA: Flu Vaccine Benefits Moms and Babies (CME/CE, with video)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- For pregnant women, an influenza vaccination leads to bigger babies and infants who are less likely to get the flu, according to three studies presented here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 29, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

IDSA: Flu Vaccine Benefits Moms and Babies (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- For pregnant women, an influenza vaccination leads to bigger babies and infants who are less likely to get the flu, according to three studies presented here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 29, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

One in Nine Report Never Getting Enough Sleep (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
More than 11% of surveyed American adults said there was not a single day in the previous month when they got enough sleep, CDC researchers said. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 29, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

No Increased Cancer Risk with Anti-TNF Therapy in RA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy had no increased risk of cancer during the first six years of treatment compared with biologics-naive patients, a large population-based Swedish study found. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 29, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Investigational PPI-NSAID May Cut GI Bleeds in OA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- An investigational compound that combines an NSAID and a proton pump inhibitor in an enteric-coated pill significantly reduced the rate of gastrointestinal ulcers in high-risk patients with arthritis, even when the drug was taken on top of low dose aspirin, researchers reported here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 27, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

CDC Says H1N1 Vaccine Bottleneck EasingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The pandemic flu vaccination bottleneck should ease over the next week or so, according to CDC director Thomas Frieden, MD. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 27, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Novel Oral Drug Shows Promise in RA, but No Panacea (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Six-month data on an investigational oral anti-inflammatory drug confirmed its effectiveness as second-line therapy for rheumatoid arthritis, but it was a bust in patients who had failed biologic therapy, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 23, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Abatacept Efficacy in RA Lasts for Two Years (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Abatacept (Orencia) is effective against clinical symptoms and joint erosion in early rheumatoid arthritis for at least two years, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 23, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Tocilizumab Protects Joints Better than Methotrexate Alone (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- The investigational biologic agent tocilizumab appeared to prevent joint erosion among rheumatoid arthritis patients better than treatment with methotrexate alone, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 23, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Anti-TNF Therapy Better in Refractory RA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Joint damage progressed more slowly when rheumatoid arthritis patients who failed initial therapies took biologic agents rather than additional conventional drugs, Swedish researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 23, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Depression and CVD Linked in Patients with Lupus (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- For patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, depression further increases their already elevated risk for cardiovascular disease, researchers reported here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 23, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: No Increase in Infections with Anti-TNF Therapy (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Two new studies failed to find a solid link between anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy and infections among rheumatoid arthritis patients. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACIP Recommends Against Routine Use of HPV Vax in BoysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has advised against the routine use of the human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil) in boys and men, but said individual physicians should have the option to recommend the vaccine to male patients. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Weight Loss Helps Stave Off OA Disability (CME/CE, with video)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Losing weight can prevent osteoarthritis of the knee or improve function for those who already have it, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: New OA Treatment Guidelines PreviewedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- A forthcoming revision to the American College of Rheumatology's osteoarthritis treatment guidelines will likely recommend against some popular over-the-counter treatments, according to a preview presentation at the group's annual meeting here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Joint Surgery Declines Hint at Better RA Drugs (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Declining rates of major joint surgery appear to be the result of improving medical treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, researchers suggested here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Canes Found Therapeutic in Osteoarthritis (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Perhaps the oldest and simplest medical device -- the cane -- corrects abnormal mechanical stresses in the knees of osteoarthritis patients and relieves pain, a researcher said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 22, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Chinese H1N1 Vaccine Similar to Western Drugs (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The pandemic flu vaccine being used in China has characteristics similar to those of vaccines developed in the West, researchers said. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 21, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: No Special Benefit Seen with Biologic RA Drugs (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis appear to fare equally whether they start treatment with traditional, disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or newer biologic agents that target the basic disease process, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 20, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Physicians Flout RA Treatment Guidelines (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- When rheumatoid arthritis symptoms persist despite disease-modifying therapies, few rheumatologists step up treatment as recommended by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guidelines, a researcher said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 20, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Microdermabrasion Stimulates Collagen Production (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Coarse microdermabrasion of photodamaged skin initiated a molecular cascade of inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling events similar to those involved in normal wound healing, a biopsy study showed. Collagen production also was stimulated. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 20, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Agencies Warn Web Site Over H1N1 ClaimsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission have warned a medical Web site to stop marketing a health supplement using claims it helps prevent the spread of the H1N1 pandemic flu. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: JAK Inhibitor Shows Continued Response in RA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with a novel oral drug that interferes with the cascade of molecular events involved in inflammatory responses appears to relieve symptoms in patients, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Markers Identify RA Patients Who Need Early Med Switch (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Early-stage rheumatoid arthritis patients for whom methotrexate alone is unlikely to forestall disease progression can be identified early on with two standard markers, a researcher said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

VA Extends Agent Orange Benefits to Additional IllnessesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has extended Agent Orange benefits to three additional medical conditions after an independent study by the Institute of Medicine. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Rheumatoid Arthritis Biologics Increase Risk of Skin Cancer (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Rheumatoid arthritis patients being treated with potent tumor necrosis factor inhibitors run an increased risk of developing skin cancer, researchers said here at the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Quantitative Biomarker Test Improves RA Prognosis Accuracy (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Quantitative testing for rheumatoid factor and anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) provide a better picture of arthritis patients' future symptoms than simple determinations of whether they are elevated, a researcher said here. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 19, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

ACR: Safety of TNF Inhibitors Tops Meeting AgendaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Studies on potentially serious side effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers are among the research highlights on tap here at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 16, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Canada Too Slow Starting H1N1 Vaccine Program, Critics SayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- Canadian health officials are defending their pandemic vaccination program from charges it's slow and badly organized. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 16, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Post-Vaccine Acetaminophen May Harm Immune Response (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Giving prophylactic acetaminophen to children to prevent vaccine-induced fever reduces the immunogenicity of certain vaccines, two randomized trials showed. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 15, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Urate Levels Predict Decline in Parkinson's Disease (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
High serum and cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of urate were associated with slower rates of clinical decline among patients with Parkinson's disease, analysis of data from a randomized trial revealed. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 12, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

H1N1 Pandemic Claims 76 Children's Lives, CDC SaysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since the start of the H1N1 pandemic in April, 76 children have died because of the disease (MedPage Today) -- with 19 more deaths reported to the CDC in the past week, an agency official said. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 9, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Drop in Oxygen Saturation in Apnea Tied to Obesity (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Obese patients may experience more severe blood oxygen desaturation during apnea and hypopnea events, researchers say. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 8, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Abatacept Effective in Moderate-to-Severe RA (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The biologic drug abatacept (Orencia) was effective for improving signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with moderate-to-severe disease who have failed other treatments, a Cochrane review confirmed. (Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - October 7, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news