NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As second-line treatment for locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer in Chinese patients, pemetrexed is as effective as docetaxel but with fewer…
Using the computer to communicate with your physician, schedule an appointment, see test results and even request prescription refills is becoming an important component of health care reform.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While oxybutynin is often used prophylactically to reduce irritative urinary symptoms related to intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy for bladder cancer, it actually…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with liver cancer related to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, giving nucleoside analogues after curative surgery appears to reduce the risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reduced-intensity conditioning that includes two daily 2.5-mg/kg doses of antithymocyte globulin before allogeneic stem-cell transplantation for hematologic malignancy significantly reduces graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even the best strategies for selectively testing colorectal CRC tumors for mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutations will miss 5% to 15% of Lynch…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors (TNF-I) therapy for various immune-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases does not increase the risk of cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two independent studies have shown that long-term outcomes are better with radiotherapy and chemotherapy rather than radiotherapy alone in patients with anaplastic oligodendrogliomas…
Oriane Chausiaux, PhD, and Shamus Husheer, PhD, discuss DuoFertility, a new method to aid couples struggling with infertility. The program monitors over 20,000 physiological measurements to guide couples on the best ways to conceive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A test that measures levels of the protein fibulin-3 in blood and pleural fluid can identify people with pleural mesothelioma and might someday…
