NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disease-free survival with breast cancer is not improved by adding tamoxifen therapy either before or after treatment with letrozole, according to a report…
Gary Falk, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Esophageal and Swallowing Disorders, Cleveland Clinic, discusses Barrett’s esophagus and its identification and treatment in the primary care…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Liver transplant recipients whose indication for transplant was hepatitis C virus (HCV) cirrhosis have markedly poorer survival compared to patients transplanted for alcoholic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The tyrosine kinase inhibitor gefitinib is more effective than standard therapy with carboplatin-paclitaxel for lung adenocarcinomas with mutations in the epidermal growth factor…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Roughly 56% of melanomas detected in general dermatology practice are found through full-body skin examinations (FBSE), not as the result of patient complaint,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV, Gardasil, Merck and Co.) licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration in June 2006…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A longer atrial fibrillation (AF) cycle length, measured with surface ECG, predicts successful catheter ablation in patients with this common arrhythmia, new research…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of ACE inhibitors prior to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with an increased risk of death, need for inotropic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Five-year survival is similar whether patients with acute MI are treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or pre-hospital lysis followed by transfer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of 18F-FDG PET imaging can reduce the rate of futile laparotomies in patients with colorectal liver metastases from 45% to 28%, according…
