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) – Amlodipine decreases central systolic blood pressure more effectively when combined with valsartan than with atenolol, French researchers reported online April 19th in Hypertension.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding inhaled treprostinil (Tyvaso) to oral bosentan for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) improves exercise capacity and quality of life, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with diabetic nephropathy, high doses of B vitamins accelerate kidney dysfunction and increase the rate of myocardial infarction (MI) and strokes,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive insulin therapy, targeting a blood glucose level of 130 mg/dL, may improve the likelihood of survival for severely burned children, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reperfusing the myocardium within 5 hours of an infarction makes a real survival difference, research from Denmark shows. The study, conducted in patients…
These days, everyone is pressed for time, and both doctors and their patients are finding it more and more difficult to eat well. The Pro-Bites line of healthy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study published today provides more evidence that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) interfere with clopidogrel. Recommendations from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with vascular dementia who took the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil had mild improvements in cognitive function, but not global function, in an international…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The TNF alpha inhibitor adalimumab provides minor analgesia in patients with radicular pain due to lumbar disc herniation, but prompts a major reduction…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute kidney injury, increasing the intensity of hemodialysis over recommended levels does not reduce mortality or improve renal recovery, according…
