Clinical Challenges: Determining When to Stop MS Therapy as Patients Age
Stopping multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment as patients age can be a fraught decision, but there are some signposts to help guide the way. This neurological disease of inflammatory damage to the brain most commonly starts in the second or third decade of life, and then by the fifth decade patients see declines in the frequency […]
Addiction Tx, Better Border Control Dominate House Hearing on Drug Policy Office
When it comes to solving the opioid addiction problem in the U.S., is decreasing the demand for the drugs or stopping the supply more important? Differing opinions were on display at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Thursday on funding the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). “We need to understand […]
Adding This New Criteria Drastically Cut 72-Hour Insulinoma Fast Time
SEATTLE — Adding beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) stopping criteria cut down fasting time when detecting insulinomas in patients with hypoglycemia, according to late-breaking findings presented here. By adding in a stopping point if BHB reached a level of 2.7 mmol/L or higher to the fasting protocol, fasting time was nearly 8 hours shorter on average across the […]