NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Serial measurement of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) provides the most valuable prognostic information of six routinely collected admission laboratory tests in patients admitted…
John Flaherty, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University, discusses clostridium difficile treatment in hospitals, Summary: Clostridium difficile in hospital patients has a mortality rate…
Barry Marshall, MD, AC, FRS, FAA, describes his discovery of helicobacter pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease by infecting himself with the organism Summary: The discovery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Laparoscopic gastric bypass is just as safe and effective in patients over 65 years of age as it is in younger patients, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer, the combination of gemcitabine and a novel cationic liposomal formulation of paclitaxel called EndoTAG-1 substantially prolongs survival…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase III study of patients with progressive well-differentiated pancreatic islet cell tumors, treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib significantly prolonged…
Smruti R. Mohanty, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, discusses Hepatitis B, its risk factors and treatment options. For more information on this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the number of African Americans in a given US county increases, the number of specialists involved in colorectal cancer care decreases, according…
Stuart Gitlow, MD, MPH, MBA, Executive Director, Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addictive Disease, discusses alcoholism and argues that it is in fact a disease rather than a…
Smruti Mohanty, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, discusses non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, its treatment, risk factors and the fact that 5-10% of…