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…
Elderly patients take shorter steps than young adults and are far more likely to fall while walking. Until recently, however, the precise reason for this difference was unknown.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who are admitted on a weekend for bleeding peptic ulcers have worse survival than their peers admitted on a weekday, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – By reducing dyspnea and increasing exercise tolerance, breathing a mixture of 60% helium and 40% oxygen augments the benefits of physical rehabilitation in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men ages 75 to 80 years old with a prostate specific antigen (PSA) level less than 3 ng/mL are unlikely to experience life-threatening…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mesenchymal stem cell allografts can promote bone healing in patients who have failed foot and ankle surgery and are at high risk for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – even when their disease is relatively stable – are at increased risk of dying if…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Abnormal glucose tolerance can be detected by a carbon-13 labeled oral glucose tolerance test in which 13-CO2 excreted in the breath is measured…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There appears to be no temporal association between Guillain-Barre syndrome and influenza vaccination. However, influenza-like illness and Guillain-Barre does show such a link,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Another study has shown an interaction between clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors. The findings indicate that patients who receive clopidogrel and a PPI…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children of parents with bipolar disorder are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders themselves, particularly early-onset bipolar spectrum disorders, according to a report…
