NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – First-line therapy with zidovudine and interferon-alpha improves overall survival in patients with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL), according to the results of a retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic heart failure have a higher mortality risk or are more likely to undergo a heart transplant if they have low…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the first year of treatment for chronic hepatitis B, tenofovir and entecavir are the most effective antiviral agents available, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –There’s no reliable evidence to support or refute the use of glucocorticoids for treating anaphylaxis, despite recommendations found in several guidelines, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes who have fairly high cholesterol levels despite simvastatin treatment do better with the addition of ezetimibe, Italian investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, prehospital administration of nebulized 5% saline to infants with acute bronchiolitis reduces illness severity significantly without undue side effects, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) type 1 who have a slow response to pegylated interferon-alfa and ribavirin can benefit from continuing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In seeking the cause of hypoxemic acute respiratory failure (ARF) in hematology and oncology patients, broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) adds little information to that…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – HIV-positive patients taking efavirenz are at risk for clinically significant vitamin D deficiency, and for excessive bone turnover if they are taking tenofovir,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Episodes of dyspnea are more common in patients treated with the antiplatelet agent than in those taking clopidogrel, although the clinical importance of…