Topic: Pancreatitis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Victoza, whose generic name is liraglutide, a once-daily injection to treat type 2 diabetes in some adults. Victoza is intended to help lower blood sugar levels along with diet, exercise, and selected other diabetes medicines. It is not recommended as initial therapy ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Suffering from acute pancreatitis but not sure where to go? You may want to head to a hospital that handles a lot of similar cases. New research suggests that patients who go to hospitals that admit 118 or more people with pancreatitis each year experience shorter stays and lower death rates, and have lower hospital bills ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers in Italy said on Wednesday they have developed a test that identifies most people with autoimmune pancreatitis, which could make it easier for doctors to distinguish it from pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer. But the method is not perfect. While it gave a correct diagnosis in 94 percent of cases, 5 percent of ...
Cancer is a condition which most people dread. There are certain types of cancer which respond very well to modern chemotherapy and have excellent chances of recovery. Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is not one of those cancers which is amenable to treatment. In most cases, the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer comes very late, when the disease has already progressed and involved ...
