NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy is associated with a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with diabetes, according to a report in the June issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In teenagers who are morbidly obese, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) can significantly improve or and even reverse the metabolic syndrome, according to…
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…
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) – The earlier the Kasai operation is performed to bypass extrahepatic bile ducts in cases of biliary atresia, the better is the long-term outcome,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contraception, or different reproductive patterns related to contraceptive methods, may affect the risk of some types of cancer, according to findings from the…
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) Women with long-standing hypothyroidism are at increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, the results of a case-control study suggest. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly…
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,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although folate fortification of foods may reduce the rate of neural tube defects in target populations, new research from Chile suggests that it…