NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment for symptomatic hemorrhoids, circular stapled anopexy is associated with less pain and has higher patient acceptability than does excisional hemorrhoidectomy,…
George L. Foltin, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at NYU, provides physicians with important information about Swine Flu. Dr. Foltin recommends protective gear…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early postnatal magnesium sulfate infusions are neuroprotective in term infants with severe perinatal asphyxia, according to a prospective trial conducted in India and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Evidence-based guidelines released Monday recommend that women with epilepsy avoid taking the antiepileptic drug (AED) valproate during pregnancy. "Good evidence shows that valproate…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Maternal infection with Hong Kong influenza during the first trimester in the 1969-1970 season is associated with reduced intelligence in adult offspring, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The two commercially available Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-gamma release assays show excellent agreement with each other. As far more accurate indicators of latent TB…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a postmortem study indicate that elderly people who commit suicide usually do not have antidepressant medications in their systems at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of valproate during pregnancy compared with other antiepileptic drugs is associated with reduced cognitive function in offspring at 3 years of age,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children exposed in utero to methamphetamine, MRI findings suggest alterations in white matter maturation, according to a report in the April 15th…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After the development of coronary artery disease (CAD), a subsequent diagnosis of depression is associated with an increased incidence of heart failure, even…