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) – Results of a small study indicate that transdermal testosterone improves functional capacity and other parameters in elderly women with chronic heart failure. Writing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Weekly progesterone given to women with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) does not extend gestation and cannot be recommended, researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children 1 to 3 years old with influenza benefit substantially from treatment with oseltamivir when it’s given within 24 hours of symptom onset,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with unfractionated heparin, bivalirudin used for anticoagulation in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with less bleeding after 1 month…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – HIV patients with fully suppressed viral load on standard triple therapy should not be switched to a maintenance regimen of ritonavir-boosted lopinavir monotherapy,…
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…
