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) – Hypoxemia is common in pulmonary hypertension patients during commercial air travel and supplemental in-flight oxygen may be of benefit, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the investigational agent perampanel to concomitant antiepilepsy therapy reduces seizure frequency in patients with refractory partial-onset seizures, according to the results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depending on the treatment they received, survivors of childhood cancer may require long-term follow-up because of an elevated risk of symptomatic cardiac events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation and previous GI ulcers, a higher risk of major bleeding with oral anticoagulation is balanced out by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily low-dose aspirin reduces not only cardiovascular mortality but also nonvascular mortality – and cancer mortality in particular — after relatively short duration…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After about a year, patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis have the same improvement in disease activity whether treated initially with methotrexate plus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The sedative effects of benzodiazepine exposure through breast milk appear to present minimal risk of central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants, results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A systematic review and meta-analysis provides “reasonable” support for the current practice of giving adjuvant therapy to patients with resected biliary tract cancer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Paracervical block is effective in decreasing pain associated with first-trimester surgical abortion, suggest results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Portland, Oregon.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The clinical spectrum of intracranial hemorrhage was similar in patients treated with warfarin or dabigatran in the pivotal RE-LY trial, a new analysis…
