NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy is associated with a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with diabetes, according to a report in the June issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that insulin-using diabetics with chronic limb ischemia have worse limb salvage rates and survival than their nondiabetic peers or diabetics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a small pilot study of frail older women with unexplained weight loss, infusion of the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin led to improvement in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment of prostate cancer with androgen deprivation therapy is associated with an excess risk of incident diabetes and fractures, but not MI or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research questions prior reports of a lower prevalence of intermittent claudication in women than in men, suggesting instead that it may simply…
Hugh S. Taylor, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Yale University School of Medicine discusses the…
David Ciccolella, MD, Associate Professor at Temple University in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, talks about National Asthma Education and Prevention Program’s updated guidelines for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that as the frequency of vigorous exercise increases, so does the risk of atrial fibrillation. “Although vigorous exercise has numerous…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Biomarkers of systemic inflammation are independent predictors of mortality, cardiovascular events, and amputation-free survival in patients undergoing lower extremity revascularization (LER), new research…
Alan Greene, MD, FAAP, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, makes the case for doctors to start treating patients as equals, citing the examples…
