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) – A meta-analysis of existing evidence confirms that alpha-blocker treatment reduces pain and urinary symptoms and improves quality of life in patients with indwelling…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is no need to interrupt antiplatelet therapy before tooth extractions, as long as appropriate local hemostatic measures are taken, according to results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pooled data suggest that cancer patients who are treated with sunitinib (Sutent; Pfizer) have about a 2-fold increased relative risk of developing high-grade…
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) – A combination of drugs designed to prevent pain, distress and physiologic instability in premature infants being intubated works better than premedication with morphine,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with Alzheimer’s disease, prophylactic treatment with divalproex sodium does not delay the emergence of agitation or psychosis, or slow the progression…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of two phase II trials investigating the addition of bortezomib to combination treatments of follicular lymphoma suggest that the strategy is feasible…