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) – Despite the fact that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is usually isolated nowadays from purulent skin and soft tissue infections in children, treatment with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) restenosis may be better managed with balloon angioplasty using a paclitaxel-coated balloon (PEB) catheter rather than conventional balloon…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A “focused update” to existing guidelines on the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) states that the recently approved oral direct thrombin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Simple tests performed during an office visit can help identify who can safely drive after a stroke, investigators from Belgium and the US…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have better glycemic control and less nausea when exenatide is given weekly rather than twice daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using paclitaxel-eluting stents to treat saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions is associated with better outcomes than is the use of bare metal stents,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy, rates of restenosis are about 2.5 times higher with stenting, according to French investigators reporting in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with ST-segment elevated MI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a simple protocol of intracoronary administration of adenosine during the procedure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Warming local anesthetics to body temperature significantly reduces pain from the injection, according to the results of a meta-analysis conducted by Canadian investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For cough suppression during flexible bronchoscopy, the combination of the sedative propofol and the opiate hydrocodone is safe and works better in terms…
