Latebreaking data from SPIRIT IV, a largescale multicenter study of nearly 4,000 patients in the U.S., shows that an everolimuseluting stent demonstrated enhanced safety and efficacy in the treatment of de novo native coronary artery lesions when compared to a paclitaxeleluting stent, and showed that “low late loss” may be achieved with drugeluting stents [...]

Condom use is associated with a reduced risk of contracting herpes simplex virus 2, according to a report based on pooled analysis of data from previous studies in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2) typically causes genital herpes, a chronic, [...]

UroToday.com Two papers in the May 5, 2009 edition of Nature Genetics link ERG chromosomal gene translocations with loss of PTEN in the early stages of prostate cancer (CaP) progression. Both are reviewed in Urotoday.
In this report, Dr. Brett Carver and colleagues studied TMPRSS2ERG genetic rearrangement, which are reported in up to [...]