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) – Data from the German drug-eluting stent (DES.DE) Registry provide no evidence of the “obesity paradox” in the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib (Sutent; Pfizer) to docetaxel did not improve clinical outcomes when used in the first-line setting in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite widespread use of antipsychotics in children, evidence regarding the comparative benefits and harms of first-generation (FGAs) and second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are “limited,”…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving statins before a surgery lowers the risk of heart attack in statin-naïve patients, according to a new meta-analysis. The drugs also reduced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Systematic collection of extensive family history can improve the risk assessment of cardiovascular disease in primary care, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transfusions appear to be associated with an increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates, researchers from Canada report in the February 20th online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postcataract surgery endophthalmitis rates in the United States declined slightly between 2003 and 2004, but there is still room for improvement, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some elderly patients with unresected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may do better with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) than with radiotherapy (RT) alone. However, low…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Newer generation everolimus-eluting stents (EES) are significantly less likely to prompt very late stent thrombosis than are the first generation of drug-eluting stents…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For reversal of type 1 hepatorenal syndrome, treatment with noradrenaline seems to work as well as terlipressin and is a lot less expensive,…