NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hypoxemia is common in pulmonary hypertension patients during commercial air travel and supplemental in-flight oxygen may be of benefit, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depending on the treatment they received, survivors of childhood cancer may require long-term follow-up because of an elevated risk of symptomatic cardiac events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation and previous GI ulcers, a higher risk of major bleeding with oral anticoagulation is balanced out by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily low-dose aspirin reduces not only cardiovascular mortality but also nonvascular mortality – and cancer mortality in particular — after relatively short duration…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After about a year, patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis have the same improvement in disease activity whether treated initially with methotrexate plus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The sedative effects of benzodiazepine exposure through breast milk appear to present minimal risk of central nervous system (CNS) depression in infants, results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A combined oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate and 17beta-estradiol (E2) taken in a 24–4-day regimen is somewhat more effective in preventing pregnancy than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite a guideline in Canada recommending the use of opioids to relieve refractory dyspnea in COPD patients, physicians there are reluctant to do…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A population-based study conducted in Canada has uncovered an association between starting fibrate therapy and an increase in serum creatinine in older patients,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women older than age 30 are no more likely than younger women to develop hypothyroidism in pregnancy, suggest results a study from the…