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…
Ian A Cook, MD, Director of Unipolar Depression Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses new treatment options for depression, particularly deep brain stimulation and injectable treatment…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine diagnosis and diagnostic criteria that focus on associated symptoms…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intra-partum nevirapine, given to prevent HIV transmission, contributes to HIV resistance mutations to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) – but a one-month postpartum course…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Researchers cut short a clinical trial of the endothelin blocker avosentan in patients with diabetic nephropathy because it was linked with fluid overload…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous vitamin C before elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves microcirculatory reperfusion, new research shows. This suggests oxidative stress is to blame for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with complex multivessel coronary disease, long-term revascularization rates are lower after surgery than after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with sirolimus-eluting stents,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As initial treatment of hypertension, a combination of benazepril plus amlodipine is more effective at preserving renal function compared to benazepril plus hydrochlorothiazide,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Superficial venous thrombosis is often considered benign, but new research suggests that one in four patients also have deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving the antihistamines ranitidine or diphenhydramine to patients with perforated appendicitis dramatically increases their risk of an intra-abdominal abscess, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A commercially available formula of Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. casei prevents Clostridium difficile infection and diarrhea during antibiotic treatment, according to a single-center…
