Watchful waiting is a strategy that healthcare professionals use to closely monitor a condition’s progression rather than treating it immediately. Doctors often recommend it when the risks of ...

Study author Philippe Genereux said the trial data “shatter 60 years of ingrained belief on the treatment for severe aortic ...

Men with early prostate cancer have a choice of undergoing surgery or radiotherapy, or watchful waiting. This Scandinavian study is the first recent comparative trial: 695 men (mean age ...

Several factors were associated with the receipt of watchful waiting among men in this study. These include race/ethnic group, stage, grade, life expectancy, age, comorbidity, marital status ...

So some doctors say instead of treatment, another option is watchful waiting. Basically, you and your doctor keep a really close eye on things. But some people shouldn't try watchful waiting at all.

However, many men chose to delay treatment which is medically referred to as watchful waiting. "Anyone who has a prostate should not be oblivious that he is safe. Prostatic disease whether ...

A watchful waiting approach is often used when CLL is diagnosed in the early stages, meaning close monitoring of the disease without treating it until symptoms appear or worsen. At the diagnostic ...

In this underpowered trial, using CMR to guide AVR timing did not nudge the primary endpoint, but did trim AS ...

When breast cancer patients are done with treatment, they may wonder about the disease coming back. In many cases, doctors ...

While discussions about the lack of a mortality effect will continue, some say the findings may be enough to change guidelines.

Slipping inside the convent one day to deliver an invoice, Bill starts to suspect that the nuns, led by Sister Mary (Emily Watson), are mistreating the young women waiting out their pregnancies there.

“These results shatter 60 years of ingrained belief on the treatment for severe aortic stenosis, with guidelines that currently recommend ‘watchful waiting’ for intervention until symptoms ...