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) – Intramuscular implantation of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells is associated with long-term improvements in limb ischemia and may prevent or at least delay…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term, continuous enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with alglucerase or imiglucerase in children with Gaucher disease type 1 normalizes linear growth, enhances bone mineralization,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large study of high-risk hypertensive patients, treatment with the angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor benazepril plus the calcium-channel blocker amlodipine proved more effective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with treatment-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, the quality of life and mortality benefit from being seizure-free with surgery outweighs the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the initial evaluation of elevated blood pressure in children, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is a highly cost-effective means of differentiating stage…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a prospective study of adult patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, nearly one in five had elevated glycosylated hemoglobin A (HbA1c)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Surgical repair of pectus excavatum can dramatically improve body image as well as physical and psychosocial functioning, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of small study suggests that radiotherapy can be safely used to treat prostate cancer in HIV-infected men, having no long-term effect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using a transradial rather than a transfemoral approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can reduce vascular access complications and shorten the hospital stay,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Before the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system was introduced in February 2002, black patients were less likely to receive a…
