(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Big Data may provide some answers to the many questions surrounding advanced catheter-based pulmonary embolism (PE) therapies, a buzzing field that otherwise has little evidence from real-world practice...

(MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO -- A comparison of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and radical prostatectomy (RP) found that HIFU was non-inferior to surgery as primary treatment for localized prostate cancer, according to a French trial...

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. is grappling with two leading and interwoven crises of addiction that result in far too many preventable deaths each year. While one is a problem that the country has been battling for decades, the other is relatively...

(MedPage Today) -- Plasma leptin levels were linked with Alzheimer's disease PET pathology in cognitively unimpaired older adults, a longitudinal cohort study in Korea showed. Over 2 years, lower baseline plasma leptin was associated with a greater...

(MedPage Today) -- Use of thiopurines has been linked with a rare risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), primarily in patients taking the drugs for inflammatory bowel disease or lupus, the FDA said in a communication to health providers...