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) – In an update to its 2003 guidelines for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) chemotherapy, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends…
ORLANDO (Reuters Health) – In a head-to-head comparison, extended-release niacin outperformed ezetimibe in shrinking carotid intima-media thickness in patients who were already taking statins, raising yet another red…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Catheter-directed therapy is an effective treatment for acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE) and the risk of major complications is relatively small, the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with normal stress myocardial perfusion imaging on single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) don’t need additional rest imaging, say researchers from The Methodist…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with bradycardia and a normal ejection fraction, biventricular pacing can prevent the adverse ventricular remodeling and drop in ejection fraction seen…
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
