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) – Patients with papillary thyroid cancer who undergo lobectomy do as well as those who undergo total thyroidectomy, while external beam radiation is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of second primary neoplasms (SPNs) of the central nervous system in survivors of childhood cancer increases greatly with the dose of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The off-label use of recombinant factor VIIa for hemostasis in patients without hemophilia confers only modest benefits but may increase the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Family history, age, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and conditions such as diabetes remain the mainstay of assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In premature neonates with inguinal hernia, the risk of incarceration is doubled when repair is delayed beyond 40 weeks post-conceptual age, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The characteristic loss of facial fat in many patients being treated for HIV infection can be effectively rectified with autologous fat transplantation or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An “evolving concept” in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease is to use biologic agents to obviate long-term treatment with steroids, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It’s reasonable to insert a suprapubic catheter using a closed technique when the distended bladder is readily palpable; however, when the bladder cannot…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A selective with antiprogestin effects, CDB-2914, reduces uterine fibroid size and bleeding, and improves quality of life in affected women, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After endoscopic balloon dilation of intestinal strictures in children with Crohn’s disease, an intralesional injection of triamcinolone reduces the rate of recurrence, according…
