NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of compression stockings during the day by patients with chronic venous insufficiency leads to a reduction in nighttime apnea episodes, a French…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a viable alternative in patients with early hepatocellular carcinoma who are not candidates for surgery, Taiwanese researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – One in twenty ischemic strokes occurs within 60 days of withdrawal of antithrombotic agents, according to a report in the June 30th online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pneumothorax occurs in 15% of patients having a transthoracic needle biopsy of a pulmonary nodule, according to the findings of a population-based cross-sectional…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women undergoing breast-conserving therapy for early breast cancer, the presence of occult metastasis not seen with routine pathological examination in sentinel lymph…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Resolution of pain and inflammation after cataract surgery is faster when patients are treated once a day with bromfenac ophthalmic solution, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – One-year survival after transcatheter aortic valves implantation in otherwise inoperable patients is “excellent” according to a new report. The findings, reported in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When used as adjuvant therapy in high-risk breast cancer or as primary treatment for metastatic breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem-cell…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When unfavorable anatomy of the cardiac veins impedes transvenous placement of left ventricular leads for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), implantation via a minithoracotomy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing their first coronary artery bypass procedure, outcomes are better when saphenous vein grafts are used for a single distal anastomosis…