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…
Program Overview The Best Practice Series in Atherosclerosis is a series of 5-minute videos featuring top physicians discussing the best ways to diagnose and treat atherosclerosis based on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Montelukast (Singulair), a leukotriene receptor antagonist, can help prevent recurrent wheezing episodes after respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis, new research shows. From earlier…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Interim data from a 3-year trial of stenting versus endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis suggests that for now at least, surgery should remain…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although high-definition chromocolonoscopy may detect some adenomas missed with standard high-definition colonoscopy, it should not be used for routine colon cancer screening in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Belatacept-based immunosuppression after kidney transplantation allows for better renal function compared to cyclosporine, with similar graft and patient survival, phase III trial results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with aortoiliac peripheral arterial disease (PAD) have worse event-free survival than patients with more distal PAD, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive insulin therapy in type 1 diabetics reduces their risks of neuropathy and retinopathy over the long-term, according to two papers published online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prophylactic antibiotics may improve survival of burn patients, a meta-analysis suggests, although the authors acknowledge that the quality of the supporting data is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, the selective estrogen-receptor modulator lasofoxifene cuts the risks of fractures, estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer, coronary disease, and stroke, the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Baseline platelet function is only modestly related to ischemic outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in low-risk patients, according to a study in…
