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) – In locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer, intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) is a “feasible, efficient and safe” alternative to continuous androgen deprivation (CAD)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients having coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have fewer postoperative heart rhythm complications and recover faster if they are pretreated with a statin,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When testing indicates fetal lung immaturity at 34 weeks’ gestation or more, administration of antenatal corticosteroids does not reduce respiratory problems in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the setting of primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST segment-elevated MI, use of drug-eluting stents (DES) rather bare metal stents (BMS) is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Progression-free survival (PFS) is significantly longer in women with recurrent ovarian cancer when bevacizumab is added to chemotherapy, a multicenter team reports in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A combined oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate and 17beta-estradiol (E2) taken in a 24–4-day regimen is somewhat more effective in preventing pregnancy than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with NYHA class II heart failure are less likely to develop atrial fibrillation or flutter when given eplerenone, according to findings appearing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite a guideline in Canada recommending the use of opioids to relieve refractory dyspnea in COPD patients, physicians there are reluctant to do…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients given pegfilgrastim experience less bone pain if they take naproxen 500 mg twice daily for about a week, according to the…
Early neurologic outcomes are better with conventional carotid endarterectomy (CEA) than eversion CEA, but the eversion technique may be more effective for preventing stroke over the long term,…
