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) – Patients hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia are nearly eight times more likely to experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) within 15 days of admission…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The pregnancy, delivery, and implantation rates seen with frozen embryo donation in the US compare well with those reported with autologous in vitro…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The platelet inhibition caused by clopidogrel is reduced when the drug is coadministered with calcium-channel blockers, Austrian researchers report. Dr. Bernd Jilma and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert about complications related to transvaginal placement of surgical mesh devices used to repair…
Sermo founder and CEO Daniel Palestrant, MD, talks about his website’s new partnership with Bloomberg at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit:…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An infusion of dexamethasone-loaded autologous erythrocytes appears to be an effective treatment for mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis that is refractory to mesalamine, new research…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Beta-blocker-induced heart rate lowering has been shown to have beneficial effects in patients with MI and heart failure, but findings from a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment for early multiple sclerosis, alemtuzumab, an antibody that targets CD52 on lymphocytes and monocytes, is more effective than interferon beta-1a,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gene expression in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells appears to be useful in determining the presence and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, alcohol septal ablation results in sustained clinical and hemodynamic improvement, according to a prospective study spanning…