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) – In most patients with localized renal cancer, simple enucleation may provide results equivalent to those of standard partial nephrectomy, Italian researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant women with objective evidence of abnormal vaginal flora, clindamycin administered before 22 weeks of gestation significantly reduces the rate of late…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with work-related asthma, a reduction in exposure to sensitizing agents, rather than complete avoidance, is not likely to improve the condition…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with standard blood gas analysis, the Masimo Radical 7 multiwave pulse oximeter measures carboxyhemoglobin noninvasively with acceptable accuracy and can be used…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from China indicates that vardenafil has favorable effects in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Dr. Zhi-Cheng Jing, at Tongji University…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women undergoing in vitro fertilization, the need for salpingectomy does not reduce subsequent ovarian response to controlled hyperstimulation for oocyte retrieval, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increasingly prevalent birth defect gastroschisis is not related to intake of individual nutrients by mothers, researchers report in a March 11th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brief behavioral therapy can reduce insomnia in patients with residual depression, researchers report in the March 8th online Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. “We…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A challenge to broadly implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs in developing countries is delivering all 3 recommended doses of vaccine to adolescents…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes among tuberculosis patients treated with a fixed-dose combination of four drugs are similar to those in patients treated with the same four…
