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) – While angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) as a class do not appear to be associated with an increased malignancy risk in patients with diabetes,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a meta-analysis of studies comparing conventional tonsillectomy techniques with technology-assisted procedures, vessel sealing systems demonstrated advantages in terms of postop pain and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When acute appendicitis is suspected, preoperative assessment by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has very high positive and negative predictive values, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are at considerably heightened risk for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), researchers report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may not improve survival for patients in their 80s and 90s, according to a report in the June 2nd online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with hyperthyroidism who receive antithyroid medication during pregnancy face an increased risk of giving birth to a low birthweight (LBW) infant, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite promising results in some other lysosomal storage disease, treatment with miglustat does not improve behavioral problems in patients with type III mucopolysaccharidosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The average of five or six blood pressure measurements are needed in order to classify patients with reasonable certainty as having blood pressure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cancer appear to fare relatively well when treated with sunitinib before undergoing planned nephrectomy — even though…
