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) – About one in four children adopted in the US from outside the country have at least one intestinal parasite, and while the likelihood…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A regimen of pre-seasonal and seasonal sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) for grass pollen allergy reduces symptoms by more than a third after three pollen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of compression stockings during the day by patients with chronic venous insufficiency leads to a reduction in nighttime apnea episodes, a French…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of vasopressin provides no overall benefit in the resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients, but it may improve outcomes in a subset of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premature infants who are placed on initial empirical antibiotic therapy for 5 days or longer are at increased risk for late-onset sepsis, necrotizing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A meta-analysis of existing evidence confirms that alpha-blocker treatment reduces pain and urinary symptoms and improves quality of life in patients with indwelling…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is no need to interrupt antiplatelet therapy before tooth extractions, as long as appropriate local hemostatic measures are taken, according to results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pooled data suggest that cancer patients who are treated with sunitinib (Sutent; Pfizer) have about a 2-fold increased relative risk of developing high-grade…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In hemodynamically stable preterm infants, there seems to be minimal clinical benefit to giving a single dose of furosemide right before packed red…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly 1 in 5 cancer patients treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy have a thromboembolic event within a month of ending treatment, according to a…
