NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Family history, age, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and conditions such as diabetes remain the mainstay of assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An “evolving concept” in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease is to use biologic agents to obviate long-term treatment with steroids, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It’s reasonable to insert a suprapubic catheter using a closed technique when the distended bladder is readily palpable; however, when the bladder cannot…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Almost a quarter of overweight women and nearly a half of overweight men in the US think there’s nothing wrong with their weight.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following endoscopic sphincterotomy, large bile duct stones can be managed as successfully with large balloon dilation as with traditional mechanical lithotripsy, and with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who begin dialysis when kidney disease is at a relatively early stage have an increased risk of dying in the following year,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Updated guidelines compiled by an expert panel of cardiologists and gastroenterologists address the issue of a possible drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Forget those headlines from the past few years linking hypercholesterolemia in midlife to risk of dementia in old age. Data presented in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risks involved in the endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms are about the same whether the aneurysms is bigger than 3 mm…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of when to resume warfarin therapy after a patient has an intracranial hemorrhage is answered in the December issue of Stroke.…