NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of vasopressin provides no overall benefit in the resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients, but it may improve outcomes in a subset of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premature infants who are placed on initial empirical antibiotic therapy for 5 days or longer are at increased risk for late-onset sepsis, necrotizing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In hemodynamically stable preterm infants, there seems to be minimal clinical benefit to giving a single dose of furosemide right before packed red…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly 1 in 5 cancer patients treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy have a thromboembolic event within a month of ending treatment, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among children between 24 and 59 months of age, vaccination with trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) is not associated with any serious adverse…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new clinical practice guideline recommends bronchodilator monotherapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and an FEV1 less than 60% predicted. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant women colonized with group B streptococcus (GBS) and at high risk for penicillin anaphylaxis, intrapartum prophylaxis with clindamycin to prevent perinatal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kidney failure during hemolytic uremic syndrome is less likely to develop in children with diarrhea due to virulent E. coli infection if they’re…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with aortic stenosis fare better when they’re treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), results of a population-based…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral propranolol given for 6 months stops the growth of infantile hemangiomas and decreases their volume and coloration, according to the results of…