Thomas K. Byrne, MD, Professor General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medical University of South California, discusses obesity and surgery. The criteria for surgery are a BMI over 40 plus…
David B. Solit, MD, Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn Chair for Junior Faculty, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses B-Raf, an intracellular signaling protein.B-Raf is commonly mutated in cancer, and…
Leigh Robb, MD, Chief Medical Officer, MedAire, describes the function of this company that provides medical services to air passengers, including medical advice on board, medical repatriation and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Eradication rates of Helicobacter pylori in children are higher with sequential therapy compared with standard triple therapy, a Polish team reports in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A negative sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in patients with melanoma is associated with a low likelihood of disease recurrence involving the lymph…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A low-dose regimen of peginterferon, without ribavirin, produces a sustained virologic response in up to 40% of patients with chronic hepatitis C and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined with ondansetron and dexamethasone, a single intravenous dose of fosaprepitant is as effective as a standard 3-day oral course of aprepitant for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with diabetic neuropathy is improved to a similar degree with daily amitriptyline or duloxetine, according to the results of a cross-over…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis C infection, issued by the European Association for the Study of the Liver, underscore the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Patients with Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS) may benefit from an intensive treatment involving trigger point release and cognitive behavioral therapy, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are administered sodium bicarbonate before emergency coronary procedures might be less likely to suffer contrast-induced nephropathy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implementation of shoulder dystocia training was correlated with a greater than 3-fold decrease in obstetric brachial plexus injuries (OBPI) in a new retrospective…
