NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Herd immunity is not enough to protect unvaccinated children against pertussis. A case-control study based on detailed, individual-level clinical data indicates that children…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining hepatic artery infusion of floxuridine/dexamethasone with systemic oxaliplatin and irinotecan can make liver metastases from colorectal cancer resectable in about half of…
Daniel Rauch MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Medical Center, Member of NYU Pediatric Inpatient Associates discusses important changes in and challenges to pediatrics in the near…
Ted Eytan, MD, MS, MPH, Medical Director for Delivery Systems Operations Improvement for the Permanente Federation, speaks to how the doctor/patient roles and methods of communication have evolved…
Daniel Rauch MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Medical Center, Member of NYU Pediatric Inpatient Associates discusses the current FDA recommendations for treating children with viral syndrome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with severe sepsis, early rather than later treatment with drotrecogin alfa (activated), in conjunction with other recommended therapies, may improve survival,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a small study of rheumatoid arthritis patients, treatment with the anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agent infliximab appeared to increase the antioxidative capacity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Advanced prostate cancer appears to be of a more aggressive type when it occurs in young men, leading to dramatically higher cancer-specific mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a large meta-analysis of trial data suggest that blood pressure-lowering drugs can help prevent cardiovascular disease in any at-risk individual,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exercise echocardiography can predict mortality and major cardiac events in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, but who have normal exercise…
