NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The distress of multiple venipunctures in hospitalized pediatric patients can be avoided by obtaining blood samples through a peripheral venous catheter placed for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even though carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) independently predicts cardiovascular disease events, this parameter does not add useful information to traditional risk factor…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining oral and injectable antihistamines or corticosteroids appears more effective for treating acute urticaria in children than using just one treatment modality, Taiwanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with double-layer uterine closure, single-layer closure following caesarean section doubles the risk of uterine rupture during a subsequent trial of labor, Canadian…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with severe acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was just as effective and safe as ciprofloxacin in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Performing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in non-infarct-related coronary vessels along with primary PCI for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) appears to jeopardize patient…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite its widespread use, there is no conclusive evidence that oxygen therapy benefits patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to a paper…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the treatment of nodular goiter, the effect of radioiodine (I-131) therapy is potentiated by neoadjuvant administration of recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The addition of prophylactic phenobarbital to whole-body cooling reduced seizures in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in a small observational study. According to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous magnesium sulfate infusions may not help patients with acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, according to a study published in the August issue of…