Medical News

• Weight-Control Diet for Mom Builds a Better Baby (CME/CE) May 17, 2012
  (MedPage Today) -- A calorie-controlled diet to reduce excess weight gain during pregnancy is not only safe for mother and baby but also can improve pregnancy outcomes compared with exercise alone or a combination of the two, a meta-analysis showed. […]
• Off-Pump CABG Easier on Bad Kidneys (CME/CE) May 17, 2012
  (MedPage Today) -- For patients with impaired renal function, performing CABG off-pump rather than on-pump appears to improve outcomes, a retrospective study showed. […]
• Statins Before Stenting Cut Risks (CME/CE, with video) May 17, 2012
  PARIS (MedPage Today) -- Statin treatment before percutaneous coronary intervention reduces cardiac injury from the procedure and boosts longer- term outcomes, Italian researchers affirmed. […]
• Plavix Generic Competitors Get Green Light May 17, 2012
  (MedPage Today) -- Ten generic versions of the anti-clotting drug clopidogrel (Plavix) were approved en masse by the FDA on Thursday, coinciding with the expiration of a key patent on the drug. […]
• STAT3 Mutations Linked to Rare Leukemia (CME/CE) May 17, 2012
  (MedPage Today) -- Mutations in the STAT3 gene are common in patients with large granular lymphocytic leukemia (LGLL), suggesting that signaling mediated by the gene's product may cause the disease. […]