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) – Determining the low-density lipoprotein particle (LDL-p) concentration in women with HIV doesn’t seem to be worthwhile, as doing so adds little information beyond…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of whether or not to add steroids to the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis seems to have been answered affirmatively by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants requiring hospitalization for acute bronchiolitis do not recover any more quickly when chest physiotherapy is performed, as is routine practice in some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In recipients of drug-eluting coronary stents who undergo a major noncardiac surgical procedure some months later, the risk of adverse outcomes is less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Atorvastatin plus vitamins C and E reduce the risk of developing hepatitic steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The difficult problem of tardive dyskinesia related to antipsychotic therapy responds to treatment with an extract of Ginkgo biloba, according to a Chinese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding interferon alpha-2b and megadose vitamins to treatment with intravesical BCG does not improve outcomes in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Once a diagnosis of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) is confirmed in HIV patients being treated with antiretroviral therapy, a course of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Left ventricular thrombus is still quite a frequent finding in patients with an anterior wall MI who have been treated by percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The widely held view that maintenance treatment of stabilized patients with schizophrenia must be administered every day seems to be refuted by a…
