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 taking clopidogrel because of their high risk for cardiovascular events are more likely to have a major event if they carry the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy can abolish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) or significantly reduce their frequency in many instances, a British team has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with symptomatic uterine fibroids wishing to maintain fertility, laparoscopic myomectomy with transient occlusion of the uterine artery during the procedure may…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptures, expedient endovascular repair in selected patients can save lives, an international group reports. They point out in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Azithromycin is not only an effective treatment for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) that occurs in many lung transplant patients, it can also prevent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The notable accumulation of visceral fat that occurs in some patients with HIV who are on antiretroviral drugs can be reduced substantially by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and elevate natriuretic peptide levels can benefit from treatment with various suppressors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – What appears to be a blue nevus might be a cutaneous melanoma metastasis. High resolution ultrasonography can aid dermatologists in making the differential…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The adverse effects of conventional amphotericin B for treating acute cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS patients can be reduced significantly by using the liposomal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
