Control Group

Each month, John Sweetenham, MD, and I review a stack of reports from conferences and the international literature for reporting in HemOnc Today.

Prenatal use of snus, a moistened smokeless tobacco product, may lead to higher systolic BP and altered heart rate variability in offspring by age 6 years, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Published results show femoroacetabular osteoplasty appears to have less optimal outcomes in patients with acetabular retroversion compared to patients without acetabular retroversion.

New data from the PHARLAP trial indicated that a maximal lung recruitment strategy, compared with conventional mechanical ventilation, had no effect on the number of ventilator-free days or mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.