Breast cancer patients who started taking one of two well-known heart medications at the same time they initiated trastuzumab—a targeted cancer therapy that has been linked to heart damage—received no benefit in terms ...
Mar 12, 2018
Four weeks of treatment with a novel inhaled medication failed to improve exercise capacity, daily activity levels, severity of symptoms or quality of life in patients with a type of heart failure for which no effective treatment ...
Mar 12, 2018
After six months of follow up, women newly diagnosed with breast cancer who were given the beta blocker carvedilol to prevent heart issues while undergoing chemotherapy showed no difference in declines in heart function compared ...
Mar 12, 2018
Getting a large dose of a statin did not have an impact on major adverse cardiac events among a broad population of patients slated to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a procedure to clear blocked arteries, ...
Mar 12, 2018
When it comes to colorectal cancer, many people would benefit from individually tailored screening rather than standardized population guidelines.
Mar 12, 2018
Twelve Indigenous health leaders are embarking on a bold and innovative leadership program through the Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Melbourne to tackle some of Australia's long-term health ...
Mar 12, 2018
Investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) have revealed a gene mutation's role in Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, a genetically inherited disease which causes ...
Mar 12, 2018
Easy access to a gun at home is bad for a child's mental health, particularly for girls —bad enough, according to a new examination of a study of American schoolchildren from the 1990s, to suggest parents think carefully ...
Mar 12, 2018
