NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of a high cut-off dialyzer can help patients with acute renal failure secondary to multiple myeloma become dialysis free, the results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Weekly weight measurements can accurately predict which preterm infants are likely to develop proliferative retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requiring treatment, according to study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Consolidation therapy with low-dose thalidomide and prednisolone can improve survival in patients with multiple myeloma who have undergone autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT), according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most infants who undergo fluoroscopy guided lumbar puncture (LP), the procedure will introduce red blood cells into the cerebrospinal fluid, which can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of critically ill adults, use of chlorhexidine gluconate-impregnated sponges for dressings significantly reduced the risk of catheter-related infections compared with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, adding nitazoxanide to peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin improves the virologic response rates, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A body mass index that falls outside the normal range is associated with an increased risk of bleeding and death after percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Aggressive reduction of cholesterol levels and normalization of high blood pressure is necessary to attenuate the progression of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD),…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although the incidence of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infections remained stable in Canada between 1997 and 2005, the attributable mortality nearly quadrupled, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether or not insulin therapy is used, normalizing glucose levels in hospitalized patients with myocardial infarction (MI) can improve survival, according to a…