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) – Perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus from highly viremic mothers to their offspring is substantially reduced with telbivudine therapy during pregnancy, without any…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injections of onabotulinumtoxinA, better known as Botox, significantly reduce urinary incontinence due to neurogenic detrusor overactivity in patients with spinal cord injury or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite historical recommendations that an episiotomy be performed to prevent brachial plexus injury when a shoulder dystocia occurs during childbirth, a review of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an integrated analysis of pooled data from two clinical trials confirm that the recombinant peptide ecallantide (Kalbitor; Dyax Corp) reduces symptoms…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions who receive high-dose statin treatment before the procedure have about half the rate of major adverse cardiac events…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stroke patients who receive care in a stroke unit combined with early supported discharge are more likely to be living at home 5…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, double-blinded trial of 54 infants with tachypnea, a dose of inhaled salbutamol improved respiratory rate, inspired oxygen, and other measures…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Routine repeat computed tomography (CT) scans aren’t necessary in patients with traumatic head injury who don’t have deteriorating neurological status, concludes a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term results confirm that use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in treating muscle-invasive cancer of the bladder confers a significant survival advantage, an international collaborative…
