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) – Forget those headlines from the past few years linking hypercholesterolemia in midlife to risk of dementia in old age. Data presented in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Short-term testosterone treatment in frail elderly men improves muscle mass and strength, but the effects don’t last more than 6 months after treatment…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib or erlotinib may slow the development of central nervous system metastases in patients with advanced non-small cell lung…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When children develop a skin rash after being treated with a beta-lactam, the cause is more likely to be related to a viral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risks involved in the endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms are about the same whether the aneurysms is bigger than 3 mm…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnancy outcomes are improved for overweight women when they adopt a low-glycemic load diet compared with a low-fat diet, a Massachusetts-based group reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of when to resume warfarin therapy after a patient has an intracranial hemorrhage is answered in the December issue of Stroke.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, instead of remaining in the left lateral position, the improvement in luminal distension leads…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with severe aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular systolic function may do better with transcatheter implantation of a prosthetic aortic valve than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with breast cancer treated with anthracycline-taxane based regimens are more likely to become amenorrheic than women treated with just anthracyclines or conventional…
