Open and endoscopic carpal-tunnel releases are commonly used as the definitive treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. This ...
Patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive early breast cancer with residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant systemic therapy have a high risk of recurrence and death.
Zoledronate prevents fractures in older women when administered every 12 to 18 months, but its effects on bone density and bone turnover persist beyond 5 years. Whether infrequent zoledronate ...
An urgent health care workforce crisis is looming. In the United States, a country plagued by disparate health outcomes across its geographic regions, relative physician “deserts” (i.e ...
The Cass Review on gender-affirming care, which has been used to justify bans in U.S. states, transgresses medical law, policy, and practice, which puts it at odds with mainstream U.S. expert ...
A quantitative alcohol history should be recorded for all patients, because alcohol use contributes to many physical and mental disorders. A person-centered, nonjudgmental approach should be adopted.
In this trial involving patients with hematologic cancers, the immune responses that were elicited were similar for adjuvanted-dose and standard-dose influenza vaccines.
Panel A summarizes the conventional model of how oncogenic RAS guanosine triphosphatases (i.e., Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue [KRAS], neuroblastoma RAS viral oncogene homologue ...
Dr. Kalen N. Wright (Emergency Medicine): A 21-year-old man with sickle cell disease was evaluated in the emergency department of this hospital after loss of consciousness resulting in a fall.
Zoledronate prevents fractures when given every 12 to 18 months, but its effects on bone health persist well beyond 5 years. New research findings on very infrequent zoledronate dosing in early ...
Aortic-valve stenosis is an increasingly common clinical condition in the aging population. Population studies indicate a prevalence of up to 2.5% even among persons younger than 75 years of age ...