Komal Jhaveri, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and lead author of the EMBER-3 trial, as she discusses the significance of this approval, its impact on the treatment…
Sung-Bae Kim, MD, PhD, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, reports on results from the East Asian subgroup of the Phase 3 EMBER‑3 trial, showing that in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When used as adjuvant therapy in high-risk breast cancer or as primary treatment for metastatic breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem-cell…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When unfavorable anatomy of the cardiac veins impedes transvenous placement of left ventricular leads for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), implantation via a minithoracotomy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants and toddlers aged 6 to 23 months in North America are currently given a half-dose of split-virus trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV), but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing their first coronary artery bypass procedure, outcomes are better when saphenous vein grafts are used for a single distal anastomosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a large observational study reinforce current European and American guidelines that clopidogrel be given as early as possible after ST-segment elevation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In select patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage II colon cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy after resection improves survival, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, pretreatment with a glucocorticoid decreases complications and time spent in the hospital, probably by attenuating the postsurgical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Roflumilast is safe and reduces exacerbations in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are also using a long-acting beta-2 agonist…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) is as effective as systemic progestogen regimens for endometrial protection in women taking estrogen replacement therapy for menopausal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis often have gastroesophageal reflux (GER), and use of medication to treat this condition is associated with increased survival,…
