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(MedPage Today) -- Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease declined significantly in high-risk patients treated with azithromycin, data from a large, randomized trial showed.

New research finds that updating family cancer history identifies high-risk patients who could benefit from screening.

(MedPage Today) -- For older, fatter, and sicker patients, bariatric surgery may not reduce the risk of death, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- At one year there were no significant survival differences among high-risk patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement compared with those who had surgical repair, but there were significant differences in adverse events at 30 days, according to results of the PARTNER trial.

NEW YORK CITY (MedPage Today) -- In high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, intensive control of blood pressure did not increase the rate of falls or fractures, according to an ancillary study to the ACCORD trial.

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- A perioperative hydration management system reduces contrast-induced nephropathy during image-guided cardiology procedures in high-risk patients, researchers found.

(University of Oklahoma) Cancer researchers at the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center have found a way to stop early stage pancreatic cancer in research models -- a result that has far-reaching implications in chemoprevention for high-risk patients.

(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic-soaked collagen sponges placed in the wound after heart surgery do not appear to cut down on infections among high-risk patients, according to results of a randomized trial.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- An evaluation of commonly used prostate specific antigen (PSA) parameters showed the tests would have led to treatment recommendations for as many as 84% of low-risk patients in active surveillance, data from an ongoing study showed.