NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ablation of atrial fibrillation by combining the transvenous catheter approach with the thoracoscopic epicardial approach in a single procedure has a high success…
How can physicians evaluate what rising PSA levels mean when screening for prostate cancer? Janna Andrews, MD, explains how PSA levels rise naturally with growing age, and how physicians can use…
The recent PLCO study and its results have sparked controversy in some circles. The trial concludes that routine PSA exams and digital rectal exams, standard screening exams for prostate cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women undergoing labor induction, the rate of vaginal delivery within 24 hours is higher when a double-balloon transcervical catheter rather than a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block for controlling pain,…
Most weight loss programs are rather intensive during the initial weeks of treatment. They can also be costly and require a huge time commitment. An alternative treatment is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a Korean study of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer who had never smoked and were previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy, progression-free…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After 20 weeks of use, laropiprant continues to reduce flushing related to niacin treatment for a further 12 weeks, according to a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sterile urine before undergoing shock wave lithotripsy can forgo antibiotic prophylaxis, according to the results of a meta-analysis reported in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rather than a 24-hour urine collection to measure proteinuria, a 12-hour urine protein determination and the protein:creatinine ratio can be used for evaluating…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is suspected, the absence of Gram staining on a respiratory specimen reliably rules out the diagnosis. On the other…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rates of maternal morbidity among women with gestational hypertension are lowest when labor is induced at 38 weeks while neonatal morbidity/mortality rates are…
