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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children who are regularly exposed to tobacco smoke appear to be at increased risk for early emphysematous lung changes decades later, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that hyperkyphosis is an independent risk factor for mortality in older women with vertebral fractures. According to the report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women seem to be more susceptible to the harmful effects of smoking than their male counterparts, according to findings from a case-control study…
B. Todd Schaeffer, MD, FACS reviews FinESS, a novel minimally invasive sinus treatment, which is being used as an alternative to more traditional sinus surgery. References and Resources…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The earlier the Kasai operation is performed to bypass extrahepatic bile ducts in cases of biliary atresia, the better is the long-term outcome,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that spinal fluid levels of three biomarkers may help identify people with very mild dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Primary total hip arthroplasty with a porous-coated cementless acetabular component continues to provide “durable fixation at 20 years postoperatively,” orthopedic surgeons from Rush…
