NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment strategy for early Parkinson disease, initial therapy with levodopa versus pramipexole appears to make little difference in terms of eventual…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii – the causative organism of the zoonotic disease Q-fever – is high among US veterinarians, particularly those who…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An analysis of data from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study confirms that men with diabetes mellitus are less prone to develop prostate cancer…
Josh Levitsky, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Hepatology, Northwestern University, discusses the management of patients in acute liver failure. References and Resources O’Neal H, Olds J, Webster N.…
Jaime Landman, MD, Director of Minimally Invasive Urology at Columbia Medical Center, describes technological advances in endoscopy and lasers used to treat kidney disease. References and Resources Andonian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When radical cystectomy is not performed within 12 weeks of diagnosis with stage II bladder cancer, all-cause and disease-specific mortality increases, US researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with depressive symptoms are at increased risk for developing coronary heart disease (CHD), especially fatal CHD, according to findings from the Nurses’…
Jaime Landman MD, Director of Minimally Invasive Urology at Columbia Medical Center discusses Cytoreductive Nephrectomy, the cutting edge of kidney cancer management for patients whose disease is not…
Elderly patients take shorter steps than young adults and are far more likely to fall while walking. Until recently, however, the precise reason for this difference was unknown.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who are admitted on a weekend for bleeding peptic ulcers have worse survival than their peers admitted on a weekday, according to…
