Exceeding 10 Mg/day Prednisone Increased CV Events in Lupus

Published April 19, 2013

Exceeding 10 mg/day prednisone increased CV events in lupus

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"Do everything you can to keep patients with lupus below the 10-mg/day cutoff for prednisone," said Dr. Petri, director of the Lupus Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. She presented the results of her work at a meeting sponsored by New York …
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General Assembly session ends in flurry of votes

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The legislation calls for doctors and nurses to distribute the drug through academic centers that also must study the program's effects. The structure of the state's plan is relatively conservative … Dan K. Morhaim, a physician and Baltimore County …
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TB, the quiet killer

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Baltimore once had the highest rates of TB cases and deaths in the U.S., but a heroic effort by the Baltimore City Health Department's TB clinic, led by the late Dr. David Glasser in the 1970s and 1980s, resulted in drastic reductions in our TB rates …
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