Oriane Chausiaux, PhD, and Shamus Husheer, PhD, discuss DuoFertility, a new method to aid couples struggling with infertility. The program monitors over 20,000 physiological measurements to guide couples on the best ways to conceive…
Richard Sadovsky, MD, explains the symptoms and causes behind hypogonadism, which can occur when testosterone production is reduced in men. Usually a condition seen in older men, hypogonadism is…
What are the different treatments for hypogonadism in men? Richard Sadovsky, MD, goes over various options to increase testosterone levels, ranging from injectables to topical gels. He also discusses the side-effects…
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…
