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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) – The two commercially available Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-gamma release assays show excellent agreement with each other. As far more accurate indicators of latent TB…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although folate fortification of foods may reduce the rate of neural tube defects in target populations, new research from Chile suggests that it…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of nearly 7000 men, large body size at age 20 years and subsequent weight gain were both identified as independent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – From 1985 to 2007, the initial CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, high-dose immune ablation followed by autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) induces significant and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children exposed in utero to methamphetamine, MRI findings suggest alterations in white matter maturation, according to a report in the April 15th…