CHICAGO – Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms confers an immediate but short-lived survival advantage over open repair that completely disappears and then reverses 4.5 years after...
SAN ANTONIO – The combination of capecitabine plus the bisphosphonate ibandronate didn’t improve disease-free survival in elderly women with moderate- or high-risk breast cancers.
After 5 years,...
BOSTON – Treating patients with hepatorenal syndrome type 1 for up to 14 days using terlipressin plus albumin rather than albumin alone did not improve the chances of confirmed reversal of...
For those cancers in which risk is associated with high body mass index, North America has the highest percentage of cancer incidence attributable to obesity, according to a population-based study in...
SAN ANTONIO – Know your patient’s number: Dr. Edith A. Perez of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., explains in a video interview how the level of stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in...
The Food and Drug Administration is warning that the atypical antipsychotic ziprasidone (Geodon) may be associated with a rare but potentially fatal skin reaction.
The agency issued <a...
SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...
SAN ANTONIO – Roughly one in five women with heavily pretreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer experienced a durable response to monotherapy using the novel immune checkpoint inhibitor...
Even as the number of women aged 50 years and older continues to rise, the percentage who are taking osteoporosis medications has fallen by one-third since 2004-2005, the Agency for Healthcare...
BOSTON – A 16-week diet and exercise program reduced body weight and portal pressure in a prospective pilot study of 50 obese patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
Twenty-six patients...