NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women in spontaneous labor but requiring labor augmentation, oral misoprostol is as effective as intravenous oxytocin, at team from the University of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When colorectal metastases to the liver are resectable, preoperative chemo is not beneficial. For unresectable lesions, however, chemotherapy to downsize the lesions can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients, colectomy can be performed laparoscopically via a single port. However, the advantages of this technique over multiport laparoscopic colectomy seem…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) candesartan is not associated with either carcinogenesis or cancer death compared with non-ARB standard antihypertensive treatment,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with large proximal ureteral stones, laparoscopic ureterolithotomy (LAP) is associated with higher success rates and fewer treatment sessions than extracorporeal shock…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes (PLATO) trial, ticagrelor and clopidogrel were associated with similar rates of major bleeding, but ticagrelor was…
Neil Jacobson, Singularity University Co-Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, discusses the history and future of artificial intelligence in medicine. Discussion includes implications for patient data integrity and…
Astro Teller, Co-founder, BodyMedia, Inc., discusses the role of body monitors in the management of sleep, pain, stress and weight, and how those monitors can involve patients in…
Todd Brinton, MD, Fellowship Director, Stanford University, talks about the biodesign program at Stanford which has a goal of teaching its fellows to develop medical technology and bring…
Peter Alperin, MD, VP of Medicine, Archimedes, discusses the Archimedes Indigo tool which is designed to help clinicians manage information and variables pertaining to disease risk for individual…
Michael Gillam, MD, Director, Microsoft Medical Media Lab, uses the story of scurvy to provide context for a discussion of the exponential acceleration in data availability and the…
Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, Wired Magazine, discusses the role of sensors in feedback loops. He foresees a time in which the cloud of data provided by cheap, ubiquitous…
