NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most patients with localized renal cancer, simple enucleation may provide results equivalent to those of standard partial nephrectomy, Italian researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant women with objective evidence of abnormal vaginal flora, clindamycin administered before 22 weeks of gestation significantly reduces the rate of late…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A challenge to broadly implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs in developing countries is delivering all 3 recommended doses of vaccine to adolescents…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes among tuberculosis patients treated with a fixed-dose combination of four drugs are similar to those in patients treated with the same four…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Azathioprine has a moderate therapeutic effect in atopic dermatitis, and may also be useful for other dermatologic conditions, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with advanced, untreated non-small-cell lung cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommends that the tumor be tested for genetic mutations…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta face an increased risk of cardiovascular abnormalities, researchers from Norway report in the March American Heart Journal. Osteogenesis imperfecta…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) come down with community-acquired pneumonia, whether or not they use inhaled corticosteroids has no effect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Eye drops containing lubricants, corticosteroids, cyclosporine, or autologous serum improve dry eye symptoms associated with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), according to a literature review.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women with metastatic breast cancer, a longer duration of chemotherapy is associated with a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in time…