Hormone therapy was associated with improved overall survival in women with non–small-cell lung carcinoma, reported investigators in the March issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
Long-term...
SAN DIEGO – Women with chronic rhinosinusitis and co-occurring nasal polyps appear to harbor more severe disease, compared with men, results from a large retrospective study demonstrate.
"For...
NEW ORLEANS – Laboring women had better overall pain relief satisfaction from epidurals than from remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia, according to results presented at the annual Pregnancy...
SNOWMASS, COLO. – Whether a woman with antiphospholipid antibodies meets diagnostic criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome makes a huge difference in her risk of pregnancy failure.
Having...
Up to 80% of women experience morning sickness, and about 25% of them continue to experience symptoms through the second and third trimesters. The delayed-release combination of the antihistamine...
NEW ORLEANS – Midwife-attended home births appear to have a higher mortality rate than midwife-attended hospital births, a new national database study suggests.
But for both physicians and families,...
NEW ORLEANS – Noninvasive prenatal testing using cell-free fetal DNA found in the maternal bloodstream detects more than 80% of the most common trisomies, including the one for Down syndrome,...
SAN DIEGO – Dr. Aneesh B. Singhal, Director of Neurology Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care, discusses highlights of this year’s Annual...
Annual mammography in women aged 40 to 59 years was no more effective than was physical examination or usual care for reducing breast cancer mortality when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is...
SAN DIEGO – Moderate exercise reduced the risk of stroke by 12%-22% and appeared to offset some of the increased stroke risk from postmenopausal hormone therapy. We spoke to Sophia S. Wang, Ph.D.,...
