NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With small breast cancers, doing complete axillary dissections only for positive sentinel lymph node biopsies (SNLB) yields the same 10-year survival – roughly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with Barrett’s high-grade dysplasia or early esophageal adenocarcinoma, endoscopic resection improves staging and “dramatically” reduces esophagectomy rates, Australian physicians report. Esophagectomy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kidney stones linked to melamine-tainted infant milk formula can usually be managed conservatively, Chinese authors report. For infants with renal failure, hemodialysis without…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous extraction of pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads is safe in patients with cardiac vegetations, investigators report. And as long as blood…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Four clinical factors can help rule out bacterial conjunctivitis in children, New York City researchers say. The four factors are: age at least…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy slightly improves breast cancer-specific survival, primarily in young women with early-stage estrogen receptor (ER)-negative disease, new research shows. “The efficacy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnant women who’ve had abnormal cervical tissue removed with a loop electrosurgical procedure (LEEP) are not at increased risk for preterm delivery, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Baseline platelet function is only modestly related to ischemic outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in low-risk patients, according to a study in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) whose CD4 cell counts are below 500/mm3, mortality is increased if antiretroviral therapy is delayed until…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral anticoagulation might no longer be necessary after successful atrial fibrillation ablation, not even in patients at moderate-high risk for thromboembolism, a recent…
