NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thoracoscopic unilateral extended thymectomy (TUET) is “the best treatment option” for patients undergoing surgery for nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, clinicians from Romania conclude in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older patients with advanced hematologic malignancies and comorbid conditions can successfully undergo nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), results of a new study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The institution of lipid-lowering therapy has significantly reduced mortality in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), researchers from South Africa report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nail bed hemorrhage may serve as a clinical marker of optic disc hemorrhage in patients with glaucoma, researchers from South Korea report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prasugrel helps stop thrombotic events in patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but associated “nuisance” bleeding may prompt discontinuation of such therapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair using the MitraClip device can be safely performed even in very high risk patients, researchers from Germany report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) does not appear to increase the risk of cardiovascular events among postmenopausal women, researchers from Sweden report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The early use of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) reduces the number of preterm babies who are intubated and given surfactant. In…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A small randomized study found no therapeutic advantage to high-dose vitamin D2 supplementation over and above ongoing low-dose vitamin D2 supplementation in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Testing for autoantibody against the 155-kDa protein is a “highly accurate” tool for diagnosing cancer-associated myositis in adults with dermatomyositis, according to a…
