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) – Hospitalized cirrhotics are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) up until age 45 but not afterward, a new study suggests. Patients hospitalized…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine and what to tell your patients. This is a…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the testing of new compounds like supplements and anti-amyloid compounds to help protect healthy brains before Alzheimer’s disease…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the future of cardiothoracic surgery, which may see such innovations as the development…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined bivalirudin (Angiomax) and vascular closure devices are better to staunch bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) than either strategy alone, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Peripartum hysterectomy is associated with significantly more complications and deaths compared to nonobstetric hysterectomy, a new study confirms. “We knew that peripartum hysterectomy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Across many subgroups of preterm infants, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) and conventional ventilation are just as likely to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and they…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who receive timely guideline-based reperfusion therapy — fibrinolysis within 30 minutes of arrival and primary percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Pancrelipase (pancreatin) delayed-release capsules (CREON, Solvay Pharmaceuticals) increase fat and protein absorption in patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency due to chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new 2-hour test for herpes simplex virus (HSV) identifies women in labor who have the virus in their genital secretions, when thereís…
