NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As adjunct to standard wound care, external shock wave therapy (ESWT) can promote the healing of neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers, Italian researchers report.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Newly published research is challenging guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists stating that all women, even those who are obese,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research shows that oropharyngeal cleansing with chlorhexidine solution is no better than a control solution of potassium permanganate in preventing nosocomial pneumonia…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although instituting a phenylalanine-restricted diet can be challenging in adults with phenylketonuria (PKU), this intervention may improve quality of life for both the…
Jennifer Shine Dyer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Nationwide Children’s Hospital, talks about the Fat Gene or the FTO gene, the gene that makes people gain weight…
CHICAGO (Reuters Health) – A Canadian study of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) shows that they are 42% more likely to acquire methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the UK General Practice Research Database suggest that failure to prescribe antibiotics when patients present with a lower respiratory tract infection…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Initiating second-line chemotherapy for ovarian cancer recurrence based on an increase in the tumor marker CA125 alone does not improve overall survival compared…
CHICAGO (Reuters Health) – An analysis of data from a sample of participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 shows that the prevalence of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – To minimize the risk of serious adverse pregnancy outcomes, women with type 1 diabetes should keep their preconceptional levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C)…
