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) – Antibiotic therapy in the first week of acute mild to moderate sinusitis is not worth it and should be avoided, conclude the authors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a history of nephrolithiasis have higher fractional calcium absorption, but consuming adequate calcium reduces fractional absorption and may help prevent kidney…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of tenofovir in HIV-infected women during pregnancy is not associated with small-for-gestational age (SGA) or low birth weight (LBW) in their offspring,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cause of visible hematuria can be determined in almost half of cases, according to a report from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with antenatal vaginal cultures, intrapartum PCR screening for maternal group B streptococcal colonization reduces the rate of neonatal GBS disease, a French…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of ketamine with propofol, known as ketofol, offers little advantage over propofol alone for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia, in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) was superior to a bare-metal stent (BMS) in a group of unselected patients who had primary percutaneous coronary intervention…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Varicocelectomy leads to significant improvements in sperm count and motility, regardless of surgical technique (i.e., high ligation, inguinal or subinguinal approach), a meta-analytic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of very low birth weight infants (VLBWIs), a strategy of prophylactic bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) followed by early…
