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) – Cardiac resynchronization therapy for a year improves cardiac size and performance in patients with mildly symptomatic heart failure, resulting in improved outcomes, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with an acute coronary syndrome referred for invasive treatment have similar outcomes whether they are given double-dose or standard-dose clopidogrel plus higher-dose…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with bipolar I disorder who haven’t been treated with a mood stabilizer and experience an episode of major depression may respond well…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rates of clearance of high-grade anal canal intraepithelial neoplasia in men with HIV are improved considerably by topical application of imiquimod cream, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – By lowering heart rate, the selective sinoatrial current inhibitor ivabradine improves outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and an elevated heart rate,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer halve their risk of vertebral fractures if they take the selective estrogen receptor modulator toremifene…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome initially treated with the synthetic factor Xa inhibitor fondaparinux do not have significantly lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While clopidogrel’s effectiveness in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes is affected by a patient’s genotype, the efficacy of ticagrelor is not. Therefore,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite some recent contradictory findings, South Korean investigators conclude that a sodium-restricted diet is important in reducing the risk of recurrence in patients…
