By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among US Latinas, a greater degree of European genetic ancestry is associated with increased breast cancer risk, results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining eptifibatide with low-dose recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) appears to be a safe thrombolytic strategy for acute ischemic stroke, study findings in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term, continuous enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with alglucerase or imiglucerase in children with Gaucher disease type 1 normalizes linear growth, enhances bone mineralization,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Surgical repair of pectus excavatum can dramatically improve body image as well as physical and psychosocial functioning, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of small study suggests that radiotherapy can be safely used to treat prostate cancer in HIV-infected men, having no long-term effect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a new study reaffirm the importance of treating heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) with statins, linking therapy with reductions in all-cause,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The daily use of strontium ranelate can reduce the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women, between 50 and 65 years of age,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A brief discussion among members of the operating room team just before surgery begins to outline the procedure and review important components can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer is increased by about 33% during treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab, the…
