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The American Heart Association has issued its first scientific statement on bariatric surgery for severely obese individuals with regard to cardiovascular risk factors. The group makes no specific recommendations on [...]

The Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of the dopamine transporter radiotracer DaTscan (ioflupane 1-123 injection) provides clinicians with a much-needed diagnostic tool for patients with questionable parkinsonian symptoms and [...]

Anew analysis of the data behind controversial new recommendations raising the age for women to start routine mammography screening supports older recommendations endorsed by the American Cancer Society. In November [...]

Women at high risk of ovarian cancer based on family history and BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation should undergo risk-reducing prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy once childbearing is complete, according to guidelines released [...]

The incidence of BRCA mutations in women with triple-negative breast cancer appears to be greater than previously thought, which may have important screening and treatment implications. In all, 20% of [...]

New data from a large Swedish cohort suggest that screening mammography in women aged 40-49 years reduced the risk of breast cancer mortality by 26%, compared with women in that [...]

WASHINGTON--Tamoxifen and raloxifene offer women at high-risk of developing breast cancer two effective options to prevent the disease, based on 8 years of follow-up data for more than 19,000 women [...]

A novel imaging technique appears to be better than standard mammography at detecting breast cancer in high-risk women with dense breast tissue, according to findings from a study involving 940 [...]

TAMPA -- Palliative sedation to unconsciousness can be an option for terminally ill patients, but its use should be rare, according to experts in palliative medicine. 'This is a big [...]

Palliative care at the end of life should focus on the assessment and alleviation of symptoms of pain, shortness of breath, and depression, according to new guidelines released by the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Medical home advocates hope a new set of metrics will help primary care physicians move closer to implementing this model of care. The metrics assess how patient centered [...]

WASHINGTON -- Physicians don't seem to be doing such a good job of adhering to recommendations for colonoscopy surveillance, following some patients too often and not following others often enough, [...]

Just as there are many causes behind falls among older adults, there also are many prevention strategies. The key to finding the right ones for each patient is to perform [...]

WASHINGTON -- Preliminary data from two large prostate cancer screening trials suggest that annual exams may not be necessary for all men. Early data from the European Randomized Study of [...]

The World Health Organization has launched a major initiative to standardize the way information on clinical trials is made available to the public. In an attempt to address growing public [...]

WASHINGTON -- The United States may be poised on the brink of the next drug-resistant infection epidemic, with outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii already appearing in hospitals here, according to experts [...]

WASHINGTON -- Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease may be just as accurate as neuroimaging, blood work, and interview of a knowledgeable informant, David A. Bennett, M.D., said at an international [...]

WASHINGTON -- Kidney disease can lead to complications during pregnancy--and pregnancy can worsen kidney disease, Phyllis August, M.D., said at a meeting sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation. "Without normal [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Bone health experts shared some helpful clinical insights at the annual meeting of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. Here are some of the highlights: Low Bone [...]

The availability of a newly released set of standard magnetic resonance reference images may usher in even greater use of the technology in evaluating patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The European [...]

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY -- Evidence continues to show the value of using anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibody tests in conjunction with conventional rheumatoid factor tests for rheumatoid arthritis, according to data presented [...]

PARIS -- Caring for burn wounds is as simple as following the six C's, Sue Mendez-Eastman, R.N., said at a meeting of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies. The [...]

ORLANDO, FLA. -- Using two targets on the trigeminal nerve during radiosurgery provides better intermediate-term pain relief of neuralgia than does the traditional method, according to data presented at the [...]

Limited Medicare coverage of PET scans for patients with hard to diagnose cognitive impairment may be authorized soon, but federal health officials say wider coverage of the technology will require [...]