Yaw Donkoh, MD, of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, discusses what pain medicine is, what type of practitioners practice it and what’s hot in the field. For…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering acetylcysteine to patients before and after they undergo coronary or peripheral angiography does not reduce the occurrence of contrast-induced nephropathy, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with prostate cancer involving the seminal vesicle and who undergo radical prostatectomy fare best when given adjuvant radiotherapy plus androgen deprivation therapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Repairing vaginal prolapse with polypropylene mesh may cause more problems than it solves, according to results of a double-blind randomized study. In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Aspirin should be tried first in patients with migraine and episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) no matter how bad initial symptoms are, advise the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New data from phase III randomized clinical trials have prompted a focused update of one recommendation contained in the 2009 American Society of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children aged 6 months to 8 years usually require two doses of influenza vaccine, but if they were vaccinated last season they only…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with cystic fibrosis and recently acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection fare as well with either cycled or culture-based tobramycin inhalation therapy, results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Canadian guideline on ovarian ablation in premenopausal women with breast cancer has been endorsed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO),…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An analysis of epidemiologic data confirms that the incidence of second primary malignancies is increased after external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for stage I…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of refractory ischemia developing in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome is reduced if they undergo early rather than deferred…
