NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite the popularity of urethrotomy for treating urethral strictures in men, the success rate is less than 10% initially and may drop to zero over time, researchers report in the May issue of the Journal of Urology. "The most common treatment for male urethral stricture is...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction should receive human atrial natriuretic peptide (hANP) infusions during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, Japanese researchers say. When given from the start of cardiopulmonary bypass, hANP protects the kidneys and heart,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Positron emission tomography (PET) of the liver is extremely unreliable in patients who’ve just had chemotherapy for colorectal cancer metastases, because the false-negative rate is very high, according to a study from The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer...