NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large retrospective population-based study of patients from the United Kingdom with type 2 diabetes detected a higher incidence of diabetic macular edema…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Blood from patients with uncomplicated hemochromatosis is safe and effective for transfusion, researchers from the Belgian Red Cross report in the June 1st…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cycled lighting in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) reduces fussing and crying in very preterm infants, researchers from Switzerland report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A second dose of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) 6 months after the first dose significantly improves response rates in youth infected with…
Advanced medical imaging tests like CTs, MRIs and PET scans aid physicians in diagnosing many diseases earlier and more accurately. However, some of these tests result in radiation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infliximab for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is not associated with an increased risk for serious infection, death, or malignancy, including lymphoma, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large population-based cohort from Italy, aspirin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular events was associated with a significantly increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Generally, the accuracy of antigen-based point-of-care tests for hepatitis B infection is high, but the sensitivity of antibody-based tests needs to be improved,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients treated in childhood for Hodgkin lymphoma or Wilms tumor are at particularly high risk for developing colorectal cancer at a relatively young…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive control of blood pressure does have a clinically significant positive or negative impact on depression or patient-reported health-related quality of life, according…