NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of progression to AIDS in HIV-infected patients is significantly reduced when combined antiretroviral therapy is started at a CD4 count threshold…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It is well established that sleep disordered breathing increases the risk of heart disease. It now appears that incident cardiovascular disease is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Phase III trial found that inhaled mannitol helped decrease respiratory symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis. In the study, published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with work-related asthma, a reduction in exposure to sensitizing agents, rather than complete avoidance, is not likely to improve the condition…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from China indicates that vardenafil has favorable effects in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Dr. Zhi-Cheng Jing, at Tongji University…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increasingly prevalent birth defect gastroschisis is not related to intake of individual nutrients by mothers, researchers report in a March 11th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brief behavioral therapy can reduce insomnia in patients with residual depression, researchers report in the March 8th online Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. “We…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A challenge to broadly implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs in developing countries is delivering all 3 recommended doses of vaccine to adolescents…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes among tuberculosis patients treated with a fixed-dose combination of four drugs are similar to those in patients treated with the same four…