With a wave of FDA approvals and promising clinical trials, treatment options for metastatic breast cancer are expanding fast. Amy Tiersten, MD, highlights the power of immunotherapies—especially checkpoint…
In this video, Sarah DiGeronimo, NP, and Sydney Smith, PharmD, both from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, discuss tips for the management of common side effects resulting from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Due to hemoglobin degradation, delayed return of fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) may miss colorectal adenomas and possibly also overt malignancy, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vertebroplasty does not improve the pain or disability associated with osteoporotic spinal fractures, according to the results of two randomized trials appearing in…
Chad Deal, MD, Rheumatologist, Head, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Cleveland Clinic, discusses denosumab, a new treatment for osteoporosis now being used to treat patients who…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In trials of antimuscarinic agents for overactive bladder, the placebo responses tend to be large, statistically significant, and heterogeneous, according to a meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that the routine use of MRI for newly diagnosed breast cancer does not improve margin status or attempts at breast-conserving…
Heather L. Gornik, MD, MHS, Director Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, discusses diagnosing fibromuscular dysplasia, which is usually clinically suspected by a physician and then investigated depending on…
Heather L. Gornik, MD, MHS, Director Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, discusses fibromuscular dysplasia, a pathology of arteries that is not inflammatory and not atherosclerotic, involving mainly the…
Adele Viguera, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Research, Center for Women’s Mental Health, Cleveland Clinic, discusses lithium use in pregnancy, one of the oldest…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even though they are at increased risk of invasive cervical cancer, nearly one in four HIV-positive women in the US who were recently…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sterile water injected lateral to the lumbosacral spine in women with severe low back pain during labor substantially reduces pain and decreases the…
