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Synopsis: This is the first trial comparing carboplatin and cisplatin in the treatment of advanced NSCLC. Although paclitaxel/carboplatin yielded a similar response rate, the significantly longer median survival obtained with paclitaxel/cisplatin indicates that cisplatin-based chemotherapy should be the first treatment option.
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Oz and colleagues recently re-explored the possible etiology of the oligohydramnios sometimes seen in post-term pregnancy.
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Zandi and colleagues conducted a prospective study of incident dementia among 1357 men with a mean age of 73.2 years and 1889 women with a mean age of 74.5 years.
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In the weeks following the publication of the first results from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), I have talked by phone and e-mail with clinicians all over the country.
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Eltabbakh retrospectively reviewed women presenting with clinical stage I endometrial cancer (according to the 1988 FIGO staging) at the University of Vermont. Women treated with laparoscopic surgery were compared with those treated with laparotomy with regard to their characteristics, surgical procedure, treatment, surgical stage, histology, tumor grade, and recurrence-free and overall survival.
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For the past decade, the management of ectopic pregnancy has evolved away from the old adage Never let the sun set on a suspected ectopic pregnancy, to a less surgically-oriented approach.
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The worsening nursing shortage is a crisis that can completely sink the struggling U.S. health care system if hospitals and other institutions dont do more to address the root causes of the shortage, health executives told government leaders last month.
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An Iowa district court judge has rescinded his order requiring a local Planned Parenthood clinic to turn over the names of women receiving positive pregnancy tests to law enforcement officials investigating the death of a newborn.
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With more terminally ill patients receiving care outside the hospital, in hospices, home health or in nursing homes, it is becoming increasingly common for emergency medical service (EMS) providers to encounter patients with advance directives or living wills that ask that they not be resuscitated or that certain lifesaving measures not be performed should their hearts stop beating.
