NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A test that measures levels of the protein fibulin-3 in blood and pleural fluid can identify people with pleural mesothelioma and might someday…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravesical bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer is associated with eradication of uropathogens in patients not taking antibiotics, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with cancer who develop fever and neutropenia and who are at high risk for invasive fungal disease should be treated empirically with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite its known cardiotoxic effect, trastuzumab is associated with a relatively low risk of congestive heart failure in women being treated for HER2-positive…
Patients treated for acute heart attack may undergo an angioplasty procedure and receive a coronary artery stent. Currently, some U.S. states are mandated to publicly report the outcome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A retrospective multicenter study conducted in France concludes that combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin is effective in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to open radical prostatectomy in patients with recurrent prostate cancer after failed primary therapy, robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy “is an attractive alternative”, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whole-body (WB) scans using either magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron-emission tomography (PET) with CT, both have high sensitivity and specificity in detecting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The theoretical advantage of a retrograde rather than antegrade approach to nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been confirmed in a…
A sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose and even a cough. It’s the common cold, or what physicians call an upper respiratory tract infection. Low Vitamin D levels…
Ajay Verma, MD, PhD, VP, Neurodegeneration & Translational Neurology, Biogen Idec, suggests that we carry a biologic blueprint for death that may include “grim reaper” mechanisms. Filmed at FutureMed,…
Randy Scott, PhD, Executive Chairman, Genomic Health, talks about advances in genome-based testing and understanding of cancer. Filmed at FutureMed, in February, 2012, at Singularity University.
