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…
Influenza infection is a common reason children and teens are hospitalized in the United States each year. While the flu vaccine is safe and effective just over half…
Recent studies show that sales and deaths related to opiate pain relievers have quadrupled over the last decade in the United States. Also, illicit drug use among pregnant…
Nearly everyone agrees, health care costs in the United States are becoming unsustainable. These higher costs not only affect Medicare and Medicaid services but private sector health insurance…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer have higher response rates to a regimen that includes an albumin-bound formulation of paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) than solvent-based…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In African Americans with moderate-to-severe asthma, treatment for a year with an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol is safe and reduces asthma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a new meta-analysis indicate that for patients with atrial fibrillation, treatment with one of the new oral anticoagulants rather than warfarin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large randomized study of hemodialysis patients with new arteriovenous grafts, daily fish oil supplementation didn’t improve long-term graft patency. However, those…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The neonate with suspected sepsis presents several challenges for clinicians, which are addressed in a newly published Clinical Report from the American Academy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients on maintenance prasugrel (Effient) therapy having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a dose of 60 mg in the peri-PCI period achieves “faster…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When it comes to accuracy, there is little difference between mercury and aneroid blood pressure measurements in pediatric patients, according to a report…
