NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that hyperkyphosis is an independent risk factor for mortality in older women with vertebral fractures. According to the report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cancer patients accidentally overexposed with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy, the investigational drug vistonuridine (Wellstat Therapeutics Corp) may be lifesaving, according to research to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with epinephrine and dexamethasone in the emergency room may help infants with bronchiolitis avoid hospital admission, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The prevalence of heterotopic ossification in victims of war injuries is roughly 65%, much higher than the rates typically reported with civilian trauma,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have an almost three-fold higher risk of acute pancreatitis and two-fold greater risk of biliary disease compared with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The “ABCD” rule for predicting stroke following a first transient ischemic attack (TIA) can be used by emergency physicians to decide which patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women with severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS), sertraline therapy for 4 months rather than for 12 months is associated with a higher relapse…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an unselected cohort of female patients aged 4 to 15 years old with no reported history of sexual contact, more than one…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Microalbuminuria, which is known to be associated with arterial thromboembolism, is also independently linked to an elevated risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a study at the German Heart Center in Munich suggest that transcatheter aortic valve implantation can lead to clinically relevant…