Melanoma immunotherapy has a critical limitation: 40 to 60% of patients don’t respond. Arielle Elkrief, MD, discusses an innovative approach targeting the gut microbiome. By using fecal microbiota…
Shereene Idriss, MD, dives into the causes and treatments for jowls, from natural aging and lifestyle habits to bone structure changes. Highlighting at-home remedies like facial massages and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of azithromycin cured early syphilis as effectively as the standard painful penicillin injections, in a recent phase III trial. But…
Get a real-life look at what’s happening on the ground in Haiti from Dr. Pierre Rouzier, Sports Medicine doctor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. In the aftermath of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In new recommendations for the management of vulvodynia, the British Society for the Study of Vulval Diseases Guideline Group stresses a team approach…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Excisional biopsies are best for diagnosing cutaneous melanoma, because partial biopsies have higher risks of misdiagnosis, adverse events, and microstaging inaccuracy, Australian researchers…
Vincent A. DeLeo, MD, Chairman, Department of Dermatology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, discusses the US Food and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with psoriatic arthritis, once weekly etanercept (Enbrel) is suitable for joint symptoms but twice weekly dosing is needed to best address…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prepping a patient’s skin with chlorhexidine-alcohol rather than with povidone-iodine reduces both superficial and deep incisional infections after clean-contaminated surgery, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Genital ulcers are common in HIV-infected women when antiretroviral therapy (ART) begins, particularly when CD4 counts are low or when women have had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In treating patients with metastatic melanoma, thalidomide plus temozolomide is no better than temozolomide or dacarbazine alone, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients receiving glucocorticoids for inflammatory diseases, adverse events are very common, even at low to medium doses, according to a meta-analysis by…
