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…
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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-infected patients, risk factors for thrombocytopenia include interruptions in antiretroviral therapy, high HIV RNA levels, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and cirrhosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adenosine is less able to convert paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) to sinus rhythm when it’s given within 4 hours of caffeine ingestion, Australian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prepping a patient’s skin with chlorhexidine-alcohol rather than with povidone-iodine reduces both superficial and deep incisional infections after clean-contaminated surgery, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although patients with liver disease often have an increased international normalized ratio (INR), their coagulopathy does not protect against venous thromboembolism (VTE), new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and a previous myocardial infarction, prophylactic VT ablation in advance of defibrillator placement appears to postpone recurrence…
Co-author Rebecca Rose, CVT talks about her new book, “Career Choices for Veterinary Technicians.” Rose co-wrote the book with Carin Smith, DVM, and it has been published by…
