Takeaway Patients with stage IVA cervical cancer have a poor prognosis, with 5-y survival of only 24%, and rectal invasion might be a worse prognostic factor than bladder invasion. Study design Retrospective review of 67 patients treated with definitive photon radiation therapy for pathologically proven stage IVA cervical cancer between ... Read More »
Takeaway In elderly patients, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and β-blockers (BBs) were associated with increased incident and ischemic stroke risk whereas BP variations were not. Study design N=5951 either taking at least 1 hypertension drug or with hypertension. Median 9.1 y follow-up. Hazard models used for HRs. Adjusted for covariates. ... Read More »
Takeaway Sustained smoking abstinence resulted in substantial weight gain but also a large reduction in cardiovascular risk scores. Study design Subgroup analysis of a randomized trial. Outpatient smokers with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder. Completed 12-wk open-label smoking cessation intervention with varenicline. Those who achieved 12-wk abstinence then randomly ... Read More »
LAHORE , Pakistan – Zainab Iqbal, age 8, had been asking her father for days to take the family to the amusement park on the last night of spring break. Sunday, she got her wish. Monday, they buried her. Pakistan began mourning its dead Monday after a devastating suicide bomb ... Read More »
There’s a whole lot riding on the next phone out of OnePlus, even co-founder Carl Pei knows that. The OnePlus 3 will feature a new design and, as we’re finding out now, probably some fairly impressive specs inside, though they don’t nudge the bar much higher over theOnePlus 2. The ... Read More »
BlackBerry Priv, the company’s first Android-based slider smartphone, went on sale last week in limited markets. Now, a leak has tipped that the Canadian company may have already started working on its second Android phone. BlackBerry’s purported second Android smartphone, said to be codenamed “Vienna”, has been leaked in images ... Read More »
The US fast-food workers who protested in New York and 100 other US cities over the “poverty wages” paid by multinational burger chains are preparing their British counterparts to launch a similar direct action campaign in the UK. Two months after the wave of US strikes and demonstrations that saw ... Read More »
Maria is sitting on a black plastic chair in a community centre on a cold Tuesday afternoon waiting for her number to be called. She is number 34. When it’s her turn, Maria is called forward to pick up a brown paper bag filled with essentials including pasta, eggs and ... Read More »
SAS forces have been deployed in Libya since the beginning of the year, according to a confidential briefing given to US congressional leaders by the king of Jordan. A leaked memo indicates the US lawmakers were personally briefed by King Abdullah in January about plans for Jordan’s special forces to ... Read More »
The Islamic State group’s second-in-command has been killed in a US raid, defence secretary Ash Carter announced on Friday. Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli had been associated with Isis dating back to its earliest iteration as al-Qaida in Iraq, Carter told a news conference at the Pentagon. He was serving as ... Read More »
