By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Temsirolimus does not improve progression-free survival in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared to standard treatment, according to results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with potentially resectable colorectal liver metastases, the use of combined PET and CT imaging (PET-CT) identifies those with occult extrahepatic disease…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among psychotropic agents administered to elderly patients for behavioral symptoms, atypical antipsychotics are safer than — or at least as safe as —…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors shouldn’t rely on sputum color when deciding whether to prescribe antibiotics to cough patients, according to a new study in the European…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing more lymph nodes from patients with lymph node positive renal cell carcinoma meant fewer died of the disease, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sodium bicarbonate isn’t any more effective than sodium chloride at preventing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with diabetic nephropathy, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the short term, uterine artery embolization (UAE) for symptomatic uterine fibroids has advantages over hysterectomy or myomectomy in terms of faster recovery,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cases of elective partial nephrectomy for localized renal cortical tumors, a warm ischemia time of up to 20 minutes is not associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of a point-of-care troponin T assay by paramedics before patients with suspected acute MI reach the hospital is feasible and has a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children undergoing tonsillectomy, preoperative injection of lidocaine plus bupivacaine, with or without clonidine, does not reduce the use of analgesics in the…
NEW YORK – Women with heavy or prolonged periods benefit from treatment with an oral contraceptive formulation that combines step-down estradiol valerate with step-up dienogest, a report in…
