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) – When colorectal metastases to the liver are resectable, preoperative chemo is not beneficial. For unresectable lesions, however, chemotherapy to downsize the lesions can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients, colectomy can be performed laparoscopically via a single port. However, the advantages of this technique over multiport laparoscopic colectomy seem…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) candesartan is not associated with either carcinogenesis or cancer death compared with non-ARB standard antihypertensive treatment,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with large proximal ureteral stones, laparoscopic ureterolithotomy (LAP) is associated with higher success rates and fewer treatment sessions than extracorporeal shock…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes (PLATO) trial, ticagrelor and clopidogrel were associated with similar rates of major bleeding, but ticagrelor was…
Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, describes the technology of 3D printing and its implications for personalized therapy in the field of orthopaedics. Videotaped at FutureMed,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ten-year survival rates are high when patients with unfavorable localized prostate cancer are treated with external beam radiotherapy boosted with conformal high-dose-rate brachytherapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospital outcomes in patients with an acute coronary syndrome are no different whether they were previously taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or not,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with systemic vasculitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis respond well to rituximab therapy, French investigators report in Arthritis Care & Research online November…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug eluting stents (DES) apparently deliver drug to downstream coronary vessels and reduce the rate new lesion formation therein, a Cleveland Clinic team…
