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) – Superficial, or “nuisance,” bleeding troubled more than a quarter of patients on dual-antiplatelet therapy following the implantation of drug-eluting stents, according to new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delivery of the neonate via emergency cesarean section occurs more quickly with a vertical skin incision than a transverse skin incision, but this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-infected adults with low plasma zinc levels, supplementation at nutritional levels for 18 months prevents immune failure during antiretroviral therapy and reduces…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving a single antenatal course of intramuscular corticosteroids after 34 weeks of gestation significantly enhances fetal lung maturity in pregnancies with documented fetal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins do not reduce fracture risk or increase bone mineralization in postmenopausal women, according to a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with a newer 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanner may be less accurate than with an older 1.5 T…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For distinguishing epithelial ovarian cancer from a benign mass, an algorithm that uses HE4 and CA125 is more sensitive and objective than the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral probiotic bacteria were more effective than antibiotics for infectious mastitis during lactation, Spanish researchers report. Bacterial counts in milk were significantly lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In mice, treating primary respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with the cysteinyl leukotriene 1 receptor antagonist montelukast reduces airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation after RSV…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When hypothyroid women become pregnant, they need to increase their levothyroxine dose by two tablets per week, or 29%, a new trial has…
