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) – German investigators report in Heart that intramyocardial transfer of cord blood-derived stem cells improves left-ventricular function and prevents scar formation in a porcine…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinicians report in The American Journal of Surgery that a high white blood cell count or low serum sodium level can help diagnose…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of patients with an idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder develop a neurodegenerative disease within 12 years of being diagnosed; according…
Charles Young, MD, Editor, BMJ Clinical Evidence, Editor in Chief of BMJ In Practice, discusses evidence-based information in medicine. Doctor’s Digest single topic reference guides provide physicians with…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an MRI study suggest that the brain may be affected very early in the course of systemic lupus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Objectively measured sleep duration is inversely associated with incident coronary artery calcification in middle-aged adults, independent of traditional risk factors, according to prospective…
Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a case-control study suggest that psoriatic arthritis patients may have “subtle” cardiac conduction disturbances. “In surveying the literature, scant data were…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A “prepandemic” avian influenza A (H5N1) vaccine proved safe and immunogenic in a preliminary clinical trial with children, mirroring the results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Computed tomography (CT) of the chest can serve a dual purpose in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), measuring both the severity…
