CHICAGO (Reuters Health) – An analysis of data from a sample of participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 shows that the prevalence of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – To minimize the risk of serious adverse pregnancy outcomes, women with type 1 diabetes should keep their preconceptional levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Advanced prostate cancer appears to be of a more aggressive type when it occurs in young men, leading to dramatically higher cancer-specific mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using a new approach to detect tumor-associated plasma proteins, Canadian researchers have discovered a novel biomarker that may improve the diagnosis of lung…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an unselected cohort of female patients aged 4 to 15 years old with no reported history of sexual contact, more than one…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancers that are ER/PR negative and HER-2/neu nonamplified are more likely than those without triple negative status to show a complete pathologic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High urinary levels of a carcinogen in tobacco may help predict risk of lung cancer in smokers, according to research reported at the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The two commercially available Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-gamma release assays show excellent agreement with each other. As far more accurate indicators of latent TB…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a postmortem study indicate that elderly people who commit suicide usually do not have antidepressant medications in their systems at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – From 1985 to 2007, the initial CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the…
