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) – Patients with a recent non-cardioembolic ischemic stroke who are found to have a silent brain infarction (SBI) on MRI are not at significantly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Discontinuation of aspirin within 5 days of combined coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve surgery is associated with an increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hyperprolactinemia is a relatively common cause of secondary amenorrhea in young women with menstruation irregularities, Korean researchers report in a December 19th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Muscle relaxants don’t ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and only topical capsaicin among studied neuromodulators offers some relief, according to two…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering ketamine after morphine is more effective than continuing morphine only for reducing pain in adults who have experienced significant out-of-hospital trauma, an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intraoperative complications are similar whether staging of endometrial cancer is performed laparoscopically or by laparotomy, but laparoscopy has the advantage when it comes…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Methylprednisolone does not improve outcomes in newborns undergoing cardiac surgery, and it may increase the risk of infection in some of those infants,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – N-acetylcysteine is increasingly used to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) but it is not effective, according to a paper in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether suspected intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) at term is managed by induction of labor or by expectant monitoring, the degree of neonatal morbidity…
