Zapping the renal sympathetic nerves with radiofrequency energy may offer hope to patients unable to control their hypertension despite multiple high-dose medications.
Pain medications are involved in more than 20% of deaths in the years after patients undergo spinal fusion surgery for low-back pain, a study in the April 1 issue of Spine suggests.
Eight of 13 children with dairy allergies who wore a skin patch for three months could drink three times as much milk as before without showing signs of an allergic reaction.
Head of Novartis Oncology gives an insider view on drug development; warns that as therapies help cancer patients live longer, long-term care will fall to family physicians
