Each week we present you with the latest featured study from the research teams at JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association. Check out the video for intriguing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a finding of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on cervical cytology are more likely than those without AGC to have malignant breast…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recommendations issued by the European Society of Cardiology emphasize the need to consider the clinical context in interpreting cardiac troponin readings in acute…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After induction chemoimmunotherapy in previously untreated symptomatic patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), consolidation therapy with the monoclonal anti-CD52 antibody alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) improved…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and biliary stent placement are more likely to develop pancreatitis after the procedure than those not requiring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injecting bone cement into acute osteoporotic compression fractures leads to almost immediate and long-lasting pain relief – and at reasonable cost, a European…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When end-stage renal disease patients receive hemodialysis six times a week, their depressive symptoms and the “vexing problem” of postdialysis fatigue are ameliorated,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very elderly patients with ST-segment elevation MI can do quite well with successful primary percutaneous intervention, as long they aren’t in cardiogenic shock…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Concerns that bisphosphonate drugs used to treat osteoporosis might increase the risk of developing esophageal cancer have been put to rest by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The response rate with standard treatment of hepatitis C infection is doubled when a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor, boceprevir, is added…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Babies born at a gestational age of 30-35 weeks can be safely transferred from the incubator to an open crib once they reach…
