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Amol Mujoomdar, M.D., of the University of Toronto
WASHINGTON -- A minimally invasive varicocele embolization procedure reduces pain and improves sperm count, according to a retrospective study reported here.
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Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., of Yale University
CHICAGO -- The take home message from the ENHANCE trial reported here today is a simple one: it's time for a return to statins.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Despite qualms over a rare but potentially serious side effect of a depot formulation of olanzapine (Zyprexa), FDA advisers today recommended approval of the new version for schizophrenia.
Robert G. Maki, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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ORLANDO -- In the post-imatinib (Gleevec) era, treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors has shifted from serial surgeries to refinement of kinase inhibitor dosing, according to this presentation from the ASCO-GI symposium here.
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CLEVELAND -- Controversy and COURAGE were the hallmarks of 2007 in the world of cardiology.
In this exclusive MedPage Today face-to-face report, Peggy Peck dissects the year with Steven Nissen, M.D., director of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and a key player in the top cardiology news stories of 2007.
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- Pitching with the Double-A Mobile BayBears in August 2003, San Diego Padres prospect Rusty Tucker threw a fastball and felt something let go in his elbow, but the pain didn't come until he tried to throw the next one.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA said today that a heparin-like contaminant found in heparin and linked to several deaths has been identified in crude lots of the drug at a Chinese processing plant.
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Christie M. Ballantyne, M.D., of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
CHICAGO -- Reversal of coronary stenosis seen by intravascular ultrasound after two years of rosuvastatin (Crestor) treatment has been confirmed in the same patients by quantitative coronary angiograpy, researchers reported here.
