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) – Patients with bronchiectasis not related to cystic fibrosis benefit significantly from regular twice-daily nebulized gentamicin therapy, a Scottish team reports in the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The diagnostic accuracy of rotational coronary angiography is as good as that of conventional angiography, but it significantly reduces the amount of radiation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Determining the low-density lipoprotein particle (LDL-p) concentration in women with HIV doesn’t seem to be worthwhile, as doing so adds little information beyond…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of whether or not to add steroids to the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis seems to have been answered affirmatively by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants requiring hospitalization for acute bronchiolitis do not recover any more quickly when chest physiotherapy is performed, as is routine practice in some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In recipients of drug-eluting coronary stents who undergo a major noncardiac surgical procedure some months later, the risk of adverse outcomes is less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Atorvastatin plus vitamins C and E reduce the risk of developing hepatitic steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The difficult problem of tardive dyskinesia related to antipsychotic therapy responds to treatment with an extract of Ginkgo biloba, according to a Chinese…
The SEAK Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians Conference is an annual conference, held in Chicago, IL, that helps physicians explore the numerous non-clinical opportunities available to them. For information…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding interferon alpha-2b and megadose vitamins to treatment with intravesical BCG does not improve outcomes in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In…
