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) – Women undergoing emetogenic surgical procedures are less likely to have postoperative nausea and vomiting when treated with ondansetron plus casopitant than with ondansetron…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While carotid artery stenting (CAS) can be performed safely in different hospital settings by a variety of specialists, both site and operator volumes…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite the fact that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is usually isolated nowadays from purulent skin and soft tissue infections in children, treatment with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) restenosis may be better managed with balloon angioplasty using a paclitaxel-coated balloon (PEB) catheter rather than conventional balloon…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A “focused update” to existing guidelines on the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) states that the recently approved oral direct thrombin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Simple tests performed during an office visit can help identify who can safely drive after a stroke, investigators from Belgium and the US…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have better glycemic control and less nausea when exenatide is given weekly rather than twice daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using paclitaxel-eluting stents to treat saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions is associated with better outcomes than is the use of bare metal stents,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with ST-segment elevated MI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a simple protocol of intracoronary administration of adenosine during the procedure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Warming local anesthetics to body temperature significantly reduces pain from the injection, according to the results of a meta-analysis conducted by Canadian investigators…
