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(Elsevier) Elsevier Health Sciences and Helinet, India’s premier medical library consortium for e-resources, have announced an agreement that will provide all medical students at Helinet’s medical colleges with access to leading international and local medical content through Elsevier’s electronic platforms: ScienceDirect and MD Consult. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)

BETHESDA, Md. (EGMN) In a split vote, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 8-6 that the approved pain indications for duloxetine be expanded to include a broader population of patients with chronic pain, at a meeting on August 19.

Early palliative care in metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer led to better quality of life, fewer depressive symptoms, and longer survival, compared with standard therapy, according to the findings of a randomized, controlled trial.

The use of implantable gentamicin-impregnated collagen sponges did not reduce the sternal wound infection rate following cardiac surgery in a prospective, randomized, controlled trial of 1,502 patients who were at high risk of infection because of diabetes and/or obesity.

Clinicians who prescribe low-dose glucocorticoid therapy probably do not need to expand their monitoring of potential adverse events beyond the current standards of care, with a few exceptions, a European League Against Rheumatism task force has determined.

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A clinical trial of the weight-loss drug rimonabant that included more than 18,000 patients was terminated because of concerns about suicide risk and other psychiatric side effects. The results were published online Aug. 12 in the Lancet.

SILVER SPRING, Md. (EGMN) In a unanimous vote, a federal advisory panel on Aug. 11 agreed that the antiepileptic drug ezogabine had been shown to be effective as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures, but recommended that treated patients be closely monitored for the development of urinary retention.

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