Posts Tagged ‘Avandia’

September 26th, 2010

Podcast 102: Short compression stockings would seem to have no further role clinically.

Prof. Martin Dennis chats with us about his latest trial, comparing the utility of thigh- versus below-knee-length stockings for patients immobilized after stroke. The latest results show the superiority of thigh-length stockings, but at the further risk of skin breaks in these vulnerable patients. Taken together with the results of his earlier work, at the […]


July 30th, 2010

Podcast 96: Survivors of childhood cancer face manageable reproductive risks.

What becomes of children who survive cancer treatment and enter their reproductive years? Would their attempts to have children end in a higher-than-normal rate of stillbirths and miscarriages? Apparently not. It turns out the major concern is with women who’ve undergone pelvic irradiation before menarche. That treatment seems to hobble uterine development, but not irretrievably. For […]


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