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) – For patients with significant mitral valve regurgitation who are not considered candidates for surgery, catheter-based mitral leaflet repair with the MitraClip device (Abbott…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) on long-term warfarin therapy, an interruption in treatment more than doubles the risk of death or a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Time to delivery after successful tocolytic therapy to arrest preterm labor is not significantly extended with repeated intramuscular injections of 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Neither the frequency nor the duration of upper respiratory infections (URIs) in preschoolers are reduced by prophylactic treatment with montelukast, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Profoundly deaf children given bilateral cochlear devices have significantly better spoken language abilities than those given a single implant, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More children with bipolar I disorder (manic or mixed phase) respond to the antipsychotic risperidone than to lithium or the anticonvulsant divalproex sodium,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sublingual and oral immunotherapy may help some children with milk allergy, but clinical desensitization is quickly lost and systemic reactions occur with oral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infusion of bone marrow-derived stem cells after selective portal vein embolization (PVE) was associated with better outcomes of extended right hepatectomy in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1 (CIN 1) found on biopsy provides no information on the risk of progression to CIN 3 beyond that…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), triple antithrombotic therapy significantly increases the risk of major bleeding compared…
