Consultantlive Staff

October 12, 2007

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Eleven deaths and nearly 200 reports of serious cardiopulmonary events have been linked to microbubble contrast agents (Definity and Optison) used in echocardiography, according to the FDA.

September 07, 2007

SEOUL, South Korea -- Therapies that target several cancer pathways at once, such as multi-kinase inhibitors, might have an emerging role in non-small-cell lung cancer.

September 06, 2007

SEOUL, South Korea -- Erlotinib (Tarceva) is a viable candidate across the board for second-line treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), oncologists said here.

September 01, 2007

A 52-year-old man presented with asymptomatic papules on his scrotum. The lesions had first appeared 1 year earlier. He had not sustained local trauma to the scrotum, and his medical history was unremarkable. There was no family history of similar skin lesions.

June 02, 2007

CHICAGO -- Second-line agents for hormone-refractory prostate cancer are emerging to fill an unmet need, researchers said here.

May 20, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- Psychiatrists need to do more objective measurement of the physical and mental health of their schizophrenic patients, researchers said here.

May 08, 2007

SEATTLE -- Few geriatricians appear willing to try newer medications to treat chronic constipation in older adults, an informal survey here showed.

May 01, 2007

An 8-year-old boy from southern Ohio was outside playing when he saw a snake lying in the driveway. The boy picked up the snake to show his father and then dropped it. He picked it up again and was bitten. He sustained a tiny puncture wound to the palmar aspect of his distal left ring finger and a scratch to the distal long finger.

April 26, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dysphoric mania and other mixed mania states of bipolar disorder will become easier to diagnose with better definitions, a researcher said here.

April 26, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- While the behavioral symptoms of autism have been treated with a wide spectrum of medications, atypical antipsychotics may be the most effective drug class.