NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic heart failure have a higher mortality risk or are more likely to undergo a heart transplant if they have low…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When children with overactive bladder have a poor response to medical therapy, a course of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) applied to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the first year of treatment for chronic hepatitis B, tenofovir and entecavir are the most effective antiviral agents available, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes who have fairly high cholesterol levels despite simvastatin treatment do better with the addition of ezetimibe, Italian investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, prehospital administration of nebulized 5% saline to infants with acute bronchiolitis reduces illness severity significantly without undue side effects, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) type 1 who have a slow response to pegylated interferon-alfa and ribavirin can benefit from continuing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The dose of misoprostol given after mifepristone for termination of early pregnancy should stay at the recommended dose rather than be lowered, a…
Andre Machado, MD, Director, Center for Neurological Research, Cleveland Clinic, discusses deep brain stimulation, a technique that uses implantable pacemakers in the brain for treating neurological and psychiatric…
Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses “meaningful use” and the criteria for definition that are not yet defined. There are several key areas that need to…
Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses IT in medicine, not only relating to EMR but to issues with storage volume and medical imaging. He also talks…