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) – Experienced endoscopists can significantly cut radiation exposure during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), a new study shows. “We hope that awareness of this association…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of azithromycin cured early syphilis as effectively as the standard painful penicillin injections, in a recent phase III trial. But…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Plasma levels of the cardiac hormone N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) don’t tell doctors anything about their normal healthy patients, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recombinant human neuregulin-1 (rhNRG-1) improves cardiac function and remodeling in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), say researchers from the People’s Republic of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women in Ecuador have a particularly high rate of fever and shivering with sublingual misoprostol – but whether this is due to altitude,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and anemia, targeting higher hemoglobin levels with an erythropoietic agent is not helpful and is very…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary artery stenting does not reduce long-term rates of myocardial infarction (MI) or mortality in patients with stress-positive stable coronary artery disease, German…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For some infertile men with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA), varicocele repair leads to motile sperm in the ejaculate and spontaneous pregnancy, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Up to 20% of tests for estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancers are false negatives or false positives, according to a consensus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Amlodipine decreases central systolic blood pressure more effectively when combined with valsartan than with atenolol, French researchers reported online April 19th in Hypertension.…
