In this Oncology Brothers podcast episode, Naval Daver, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, discusses treatment strategies for both therapy‑related and de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML), focusing on cases…
Tara Lin, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, discusses how she approaches choosing induction therapy for patients with treatment-related acute myeloid leukemia, emphasizing that fitness…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The addition of bevacizumab (Avastin; Genentech/Roche) to the standard docetaxel and prednisone in men with progressive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) did not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotic therapy in the first week of acute mild to moderate sinusitis is not worth it and should be avoided, conclude the authors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a history of nephrolithiasis have higher fractional calcium absorption, but consuming adequate calcium reduces fractional absorption and may help prevent kidney…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of tenofovir in HIV-infected women during pregnancy is not associated with small-for-gestational age (SGA) or low birth weight (LBW) in their offspring,…
In the past 6 months, cocoa research has reached the tipping point. A 2011 Harvard meta-analysis by Dr. Eric Ding and published in the Journal of Nutrition with…
Help a friend of The Doctor’s Channel continue working as an orthopedic surgery resident. Dr. Adam Bitterman, a newly displaced orphan resident from New York City, is looking…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cause of visible hematuria can be determined in almost half of cases, according to a report from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with antenatal vaginal cultures, intrapartum PCR screening for maternal group B streptococcal colonization reduces the rate of neonatal GBS disease, a French…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of ketamine with propofol, known as ketofol, offers little advantage over propofol alone for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia, in…
