NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) improves in the year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), researchers from UK and Germany find in 2…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving adolescent mothers postpartum contraceptive implants is an effective curb on further pregnancies within a year, researchers report in an April 18th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a second opinion of surgical breast pathology often leads to changes that impact treatment in women with node-negative breast cancer or ductal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Earlier tracheostomy improved outcomes in patients who needed prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery without increasing the occurrence of mediastinitis, clinicians from Ohio’s…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with schizophrenia, chronic use of benzodiazepines is associated with an increased risk of death, whereas treatment with an antidepressant or several…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chemotherapy given before surgery in patients with small-cell urothelial cancer (SCUC) downstages tumors and results in significantly improved survival, a team from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Metformin appears to lower the risk of developing liver cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite the supposed advantage of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for elderly patients with ischemic heart disease, a Danish study found no significant…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After a standard course of combination chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, maintenance therapy with a single agent improves overall survival and progression-free…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The decline in cognitive function in children with Prader-Willi syndrome can be stabilized with ongoing growth-hormone (GH) therapy, a Dutch team reports in…
