NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With small breast cancers, doing complete axillary dissections only for positive sentinel lymph node biopsies (SNLB) yields the same 10-year survival – roughly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A treatment called DRIFT (Drainage, Irrigation, and Fibrinolytic Therapy) may improve developmental outcomes and survival in preterm infants with posthemorrhagic cerebral ventricular dilatation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In young women with stage IA1 cervical cancer, a fertility-preserving conization does not reduce survival compared to hysterectomy, researchers report in the March…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnant women who’ve had abnormal cervical tissue removed with a loop electrosurgical procedure (LEEP) are not at increased risk for preterm delivery, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, the selective estrogen-receptor modulator lasofoxifene cuts the risks of fractures, estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer, coronary disease, and stroke, the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Survival of extremely premature infants (less than 26 weeks’ gestation) can’t be predicted by appearance at birth and early response to resuscitation, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intra-partum nevirapine, given to prevent HIV transmission, contributes to HIV resistance mutations to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) – but a one-month postpartum course…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Limiting thyroid tests to high-risk women will miss most cases of thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy, randomized trial results show. Furthermore, when low-risk women…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women over 55, simple ovarian cysts are common, usually resolving or persisting without progression, according to data from the prospective Prostate, Lung,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It makes no difference whether internal tocodynamometry or external monitoring is used during induced or augmented labor – either way, the rate of…