Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravesical bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer is associated with eradication of uropathogens in patients not taking antibiotics, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with cancer who develop fever and neutropenia and who are at high risk for invasive fungal disease should be treated empirically with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite its known cardiotoxic effect, trastuzumab is associated with a relatively low risk of congestive heart failure in women being treated for HER2-positive…
Patients treated for acute heart attack may undergo an angioplasty procedure and receive a coronary artery stent. Currently, some U.S. states are mandated to publicly report the outcome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A retrospective multicenter study conducted in France concludes that combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin is effective in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to open radical prostatectomy in patients with recurrent prostate cancer after failed primary therapy, robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy “is an attractive alternative”, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whole-body (WB) scans using either magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron-emission tomography (PET) with CT, both have high sensitivity and specificity in detecting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The theoretical advantage of a retrograde rather than antegrade approach to nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been confirmed in a…
A sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose and even a cough. It’s the common cold, or what physicians call an upper respiratory tract infection. Low Vitamin D levels…
Twenty years ago knee replacement surgery was a relatively new procedure in the United States. Now, it’s estimated that about 600,000 people have their knee replaced and about…
