NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of azithromycin cured early syphilis as effectively as the standard painful penicillin injections, in a recent phase III trial. But…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Plasma levels of the cardiac hormone N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) don’t tell doctors anything about their normal healthy patients, new research shows.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women in Ecuador have a particularly high rate of fever and shivering with sublingual misoprostol – but whether this is due to altitude,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary artery stenting does not reduce long-term rates of myocardial infarction (MI) or mortality in patients with stress-positive stable coronary artery disease, German…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reperfusing the myocardium within 5 hours of an infarction makes a real survival difference, research from Denmark shows. The study, conducted in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study published today provides more evidence that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) interfere with clopidogrel. Recommendations from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The TNF alpha inhibitor adalimumab provides minor analgesia in patients with radicular pain due to lumbar disc herniation, but prompts a major reduction…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute kidney injury, increasing the intensity of hemodialysis over recommended levels does not reduce mortality or improve renal recovery, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) within existing licensing limits is fully justified by available data – but there’s not enough data to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite the popularity of urethrotomy for treating urethral strictures in men, the success rate is less than 10% initially and may drop to…