NEW ORLEANS – The largest, best controlled comparison of aspirin and warfarin ever done in patients with heart failure showed no overall difference between the two drugs for... »

NEW ORLEANS – Compared with warfarin, the new-generation anticoagulant rivaroxaban was associated with a 40% lower risk of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with atrial... »

Many tanning salons are downplaying the health risks associated with indoor tanning while claiming that time in a tanning bed offers an array of health benefits, according to an... »

A 23-year-old male presented with a 3-week history of an asymptomatic erythematous, scaly rash on his trunk and face. A sore on his penis was seen during physical... »

Unemployed veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder experience better employment outcomes when they receive individual job placement and support services, compared with... »

In 2010, an estimated 20% of adults aged 18 years and older in the United States – almost 46 million adults – had experienced "any mental illness" in the past year,... »

The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 30 approved a type 2 diabetes therapy that combines linagliptin and metformin in a single tablet taken twice daily.*

The approval was... »

Metformin use was associated with a decreased risk of pancreatic cancer in women, but not in men, in a large case-control study involving more than 19,300 U.K. primary care... »

SAN DIEGO – Despite growing use of chemotherapy in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia, more than half still did not receive any chemotherapy between 1997 and 2007,... »

Older people who develop dementia have higher rates of hospitalizations for medical illnesses than do those without dementia. In addition, those with dementia are at greater risk... »

Screening colonoscopy rates dropped significantly among insured Americans during the recession of December 2007 to June 2009, compared with prerecession rates, according to a... »

Long-term mortality risk following live donor liver donation was nearly identical to that of matched live kidney donors as well as healthy, demographically matched controls,... »

Major changes regarding the use of the human papillomavirus vaccine in males, the hepatitis B vaccine in adults with diabetes, the tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine... »

The prevalence of oral human papillomavirus is nearly three times higher in men than in women, according to data from more than 5,000 individuals in the United States.

The... »

SAN FRANCISCO – MDV3100, new oral inhibitor of androgen receptor signaling, reduces the risk of death by more than a third after a failure of docetaxel chemotherapy in men with... »

Men with rheumatoid arthritis have a two-thirds greater risk of developing erectile dysfunction than men without the disease, based on the results of the first study to show such... »

The 2012 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, to be held Feb. 2-4, will feature potentially practice-changing data on two novel agents – MDV3100 and radium-223 chloride – in prostate... »

Rates of re-excision after initial breast-conserving surgery for invasive breast cancer vary greatly across surgeons and across medical centers, according to a report in the Feb.... »

Screening for osteoporosis by assessing bone mineral density (BMD) has become an integral part of the care we provide to our older patients. Medicare pays for dual-energy... »

Medicare payments for the use of dual energy x-ray absorptiometry are set to drop on March 1 unless Congress acts to extend the current payment rates for the screening... »

The Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 28 approved a class-wide risk management program for all transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl formulations.

The TIRF REMS... »

SAN ANTONIO – Acupuncture for the reduction of aromatase inhibitor–related musculoskeletal symptoms in breast cancer patients proved a disappointment in an interim analysis of a... »

FT. LAUDERDALE, FLA. – More than a decade ago, the Department of Health and Human Services issued the "Final Rule on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network... »

Unlike cigarette smoking, 20 years of typical marijuana smoking doesn’t appear to impair lung function, according to a report in the Jan. 11 issue of JAMA.

"With up to 7... »

Joint replacement surgery continues to become less common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, probably reflecting the widespread adoption of disease modifying antirheumatic... »

What looks like rheumatoid arthritis, feels like rheumatoid arthritis, but isn’t rheumatoid arthritis? Palindromic rheumatism.

First described in 1944 as a "new,... »

Short-term therapy with ulipristal acetate, a selective progesterone-receptor modulator, is superior to placebo and noninferior to leuprolide at controlling the bleeding, reducing... »

Adding bevacizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage HER2-negative breast cancer significantly improves pathological complete response, according to... »