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) – Just like cocaine and other drugs that increase brain dopamine levels, the dopamine agonists used to treat Parkinson disease can also produce a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome and elevated troponin T get no long term benefits from early invasive treatment as opposed to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ventilator-associated pneumonia is less likely to be fatal when patients are intubated with a silver-coated endotracheal tube, according to a post hoc analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Magnetic guidewire navigation is feasible in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to results of a noninferiority trial performed in the Netherlands. Moreover,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When colonoscopy is not possible, combining sigmoidoscopy and a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) would be superior for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening than either…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When oxytocin is unavailable, misoprostol appears to be a viable alternative for first-line treatment of primary postpartum hemorrhage, according to two articles published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with gestational diabetes are more likely to maintain target glucose levels with glyburide than with metformin, a randomized trial has shown. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that operative times are independently and directly linked to the risk of infectious complications and the length of hospital stay.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only about half of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will increase in size, and those that grow less than 1.5 mm per year…
