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…
Levels of two proteins in a woman’s ovarian cancer are strongly associated with her likelihood of survival, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women younger than 65 with diabetes tend to have worse cardiovascular risk profiles than diabetic men of the same age, leading to higher…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The daily use of strontium ranelate can reduce the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women, between 50 and 65 years of age,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research shows that among the cognitive abilities that are affected by type 2 diabetes, processing speed appears to be the most severely…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing a vigorous weight-bearing exercise regimen during pregnancy appears to be a marker of women who spontaneously maintain this practice over time, resulting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elective appendectomy performed at the time of cesarean delivery does not increase inpatient morbidity, according to results of a randomized controlled trial. “Based…
Two physicians from Seattle Children’s Hospital – Dr. Thomas Hansen, CEO, and Dr. Craig Rubens, Director of the Research Center for Microbial Pathogenesis – discuss the increasing incidence…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder reported improved sexual function when treated with transdermal testosterone, in a clinical trial reported in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a case-control study suggest that silicone breast prostheses may increase the risk of developing anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma (ALCL) of…
