NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, targeted high-resolution ultrasound should not be used as a substitute for excisional sentinal lymph node biopsy, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is independently associated with high rates of mortality, myocardial infarction and stent thrombosis, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of the largest and longest study of gastrin biology in Barrett’s esophagus to date provide further evidence that long-term therapy with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In detecting prostate cancer, no single prostate specific antigen (PSA) cut-off value achieves the likelihood ratios usually required of a screening test, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a large population-based study in Denmark suggest that children born to women who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency are at increased risk for systolic hypertension in the coming years, according to study findings presented Thursday…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older patients with stable coronary disease, adding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to optimal medical therapy neither improves nor worsens their outcomes, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Excessive intake of fructose can increase blood pressure and induce other features of the metabolic syndrome, according to study findings presented Wednesday at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In premenopausal women with breast cancer, adjuvant tamoxifen treatment significantly reduces the risk of contralateral breast cancer, according to results of a Swedish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with estrogen plus progestin does not seem to increase the risk of lung cancer per se, but it may increase the odds…