The FDA secretly monitored the private emails of staff doctors and scientists who alleged the agency was approving medical devices that posed a danger to patients, according to federal court documents. Reuters Health Information
Patients with multiple myeloma who are receiving bortezomib therapy benefit from prophylactic acyclovir, which effectively and completely prevents reactivation of the varicella (herpes) zoster virus, according the researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago. Reuters Health Information
This diagnostic management strategy in primary care, including a point-of-care D-dimer assay, reduced the need for referral of patients with clinically suspected deep vein thrombosis by almost 50%. Medscape Medical News
Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity is not a risk factor for myocardial infarction, according to a report by researchers in Holland, published in the August issue of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Reuters Health Information
Patients with ankylosing spondylitis have an increased risk of clinical vertebral fracture but not of non-vertebral fractures, researchers report in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases for December. Reuters Health Information
