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…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses low back pain and weight loss, and talks about how 10 pounds of weight in…
Joshua Grill, PhD, Director, Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Development Program, UCLA, discusses new therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease. The FDA has currently approved 5 symptomatic therapies…
Joseph Demer, MD, Professor of Opthalmology and Neurology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses double vision, which is not uncommon in the elderly and is traditionally attributed…
Ian A Cook, MD, Director of Unipolar Depression Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the use of measurement – based care for depressed patients, which can…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine as a problem of brain excitability and chemistry rather…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The pure class III anti-arrhythmic drug nifekalant is more effective than lidocaine for terminating refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) or ventricular tachycardia (VT), Japanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating septic shock with steroids produces hyperglycemia, but patients are no better off with intensive insulin therapy than with conventional glucose control, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with middle cerebral artery occlusion, an alteplase dosage of 0.6 mg/kg IV is comparable to a 0.9 mg/kg dosage for achieving…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Operative mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is higher in women, even after adjustment for preoperative risk factors, according to a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It makes no difference whether internal tocodynamometry or external monitoring is used during induced or augmented labor – either way, the rate of…
