Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized children with impending cardiac arrest have better survival when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is started during bradycardia rather than after the onset of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents do not increase the risk of cancer during the first few years of use for rheumatoid arthritis, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of masked hypertension, often in association with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), research findings indicate.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The initial empiric antimicrobial therapy used to treat septic shock may be the most important determinant of whether a patient will survive to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of living donor liver transplantations with left side grafts, no significant difference in survival was seen when grafts
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) provides rapid relief of acute neck pain as well as sustained improvements in chronic neck pain, a meta-analysis has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to its 2002 guidelines, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is now recommending that mammographic screening for breast cancer…
Daniel Rauch, MD, Chair Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine and the Chair of the Academy Pediatric Association Special Interest Group on Hospital…
Daniel Rauch, MD, Chair Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine and the Chair of the Academy Pediatric Association Special Interest Group on Hospital…
David Tayloe, Jr, MD, FAAP, Community Pediatrician in Goldsboro, NC, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, speaking here at the 2009 Pediatric Hospitalist Conference in Tampa, Fla,…
