Vincent A. DeLeo, MD, Chairman, Department of Dermatology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, discusses the US Food and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral anticoagulation might no longer be necessary after successful atrial fibrillation ablation, not even in patients at moderate-high risk for thromboembolism, a recent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to expectations, individual genetic markers don’t add up to a genetic risk score that’s any better than traditional risk factors for predicting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients with suspected early-stage gallbladder carcinoma, laparoscopy is a safe approach, Korean physicians report in the February Archives of Surgery. “Although…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In treating acute coronary syndromes, a slow response to clopidogrel in the first hour of administration predicts a low response at 24 hours…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While rates of childhood pneumonia have fallen in the U.S., the pediatric pneumonia that does occur is more often complicated by empyema, investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with untreated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), adding cetuximab (Erbitux) to platinum-based chemotherapy can improve overall survival and response rates, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), vertebral deformities often contribute to excess height loss with aging – which in turn may lead to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of hip fracture is significantly lower when organic nitrates are used as needed rather than continuously, according to a February 3rd…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chest pain of uncertain origin, emergency department evaluation combining clinical history and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level, without exercise…