Reports
The following list of reports reflects the latest in findings and outcomes in medical research as presented at major medical meetings and published peer-reviewed medical journals. In this section you can view reports from important congresses as well as summaries of some recently published journal articles. Please let us know if you have a particular area of interest you would like to see covered.
MEDICAL FRONTIERS - Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2012 Annual Meeting
VEGF Inhibitor Treatment for Age-related Macular Degeneration
Fort Lauderdale, Florida / May 6-10, 2012
Fort Lauderdale - The controversy regarding the relative efficacy and safety of vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration was addressed but not resolved by 2 large, independent...
PRIORITY PRESS - 15th International Congress of Endocrinology and 14th European Congress of Endocrinology (ICE-ECE)
Hyponatremia: Optimizing Clinical Approaches
Florence, Italy / May 5-9, 2012
Florence - A series of recent studies, including those presented here at the ICE-ECE, are providing evidence-based strategies for the treatment of hyponatremia. Presentations at this year’s congress suggest that a comprehensive and...
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VACCINE
Spring 2012
NACI: New recommendations for the quadrivalent HPV vaccine for malesNational Advisory Committee on Immunization. Canada Communicable Disease Report January 2012;38:ACS-7. Recommendations for the use of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus...
PRIORITY PRESS - CACMID-AMMI Canada 2012 Annual Conference
Invasive Fungal Infections in Severely Immunocompromised Patients: Strategies to Improve Overall Survival
Vancouver, British Columbia / May 3-5, 2012
Vancouver - Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) affect mainly patients with hematological malignancies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Invasive aspergillosis (IA) accounts for the majority of these infections and it can be...
PRIORITY PRESS - 22nd European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Primary Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis in Hematology Patients
London, UK / March 31- April 3, 2012
London - The first randomized study of combination therapy in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis (IA) has provided new evidence-based guidance for hematological malignancy patients, including allograft hematopoietic stem cell...
PRIORITY PRESS - 22nd Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension
Optimizing Hypertension Treatment to Improve Renal Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes
London, UK / April 26-29, 2012
London - The first-line antihypertensive agent in patients with diabetes and either one additional cardiovascular (CV) risk factor, evidence of renal dysfunction, such as microalbuminuria, or both, is an ACE inhibitor or an angiotensin...
PRIORITY PRESS - Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Nephrology
Thrombotic Microangiopathies: Focus on Atypical Hemolytic-uremic Syndrome
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador / April 25-30, 2012
St. John’s - Thrombotic microangiopathies are microvascular occlusive disorders characterized by systemic aggregation of platelets, thrombocytopenia and mechanical injury to red blood cells. In the more common hemolytic uremic...
MEDICAL FRONTIERS - 6th International Conference on Thrombosis and Hemostasis Issues in Cancer
Treatment and Prevention of Venous Thrombosis in Cancer
Bergamo, Italy / April 20-22, 2012
Bergamo - Cancer is a hypercoagulable state where malignancy heightens thrombotic risk throughout the course of active disease, especially during metastases. Anti-angiogenic chemotherapy agents can significantly increase embolic risk, as...
PHYSICIAN PERSPECTIVE - Viewpoint based on the following articles: Santolaya et al. Lancet 2012;379:617-24, Gossger et al. JAMA 2012;307(6):573-82.
Closing the Gap on N. meningitidis: Potential for Imminent Disease Control
April 2012
Guest Editor: Ronald Gold, MD, MPHFormer Head, Division of Infectious DiseaseThe Hospital for Sick ChildrenToronto, OntarioProfessor of Pediatrics (Retired) Faculty of Medicine, University of TorontoMedical AdvisorMeningitis Research...