NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Fifteen years after postoperative pelvic radiotherapy for endometrial carcinoma, many women still suffer from urinary and bowel symptoms and have reduced physical functioning,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from Japan finds that sodium bicarbonate plus sodium chloride is more effective than sodium chloride alone for the prevention of contrast-induced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men who receive radiation treatment for prostate cancer are at greater risk of hip fracture, a new study in the March 16 issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of newborns with dysplastic and potentially unstable hips, researchers found no difference in radiographic outcome at age 6 between children…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with digital subtraction angiography, computed tomographic angiography is only about half as sensitive in identifying cerebrovascular injuries resulting from blunt trauma, reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the workup of patients with early esophageal neoplasia, endoscopic ultrasound is unreliable for identifying submucosal infiltration and lymph node involvement — the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An interval of no more than 14 days between ultrasonograms in monochorionic twins appears to increase detection of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stroke events are significantly less likely after carotid endarterectomy than after carotid artery stenting, particularly in the long term and among older patients,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For children with bleeding disorders who experience head trauma, cranial CT scans are usually not necessary if symptoms are absent, investigators report in…