NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute lung injury on mechanical ventilation, restricting the amount of enteral nutrition provided does not reduce the number of days…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, aggressive use of azathioprine is associated with reduced surgery rates in patients with Crohn’s disease, researchers from Hungary report in the January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – N-acetylcysteine is increasingly used to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) but it is not effective, according to a paper in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), linezolid is more effective and better tolerated than the gold standard vancomycin, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on beta-blockers who undergo surgery are nearly twice as likely to experience adverse events in the following months if beta-blockers are discontinued,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy started 10 days or more after onset of Kawasaki disease (KD) suppresses inflammation but does not prevent coronary artery lesions,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data released online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association challenge current guidelines for maintaining potassium levels immediately after a heart…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with intestinal failure who are dependent on parenteral nutrition through an indwelling central venous catheter, the use of ethanol locks rather…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term inhalation therapy with dry-powder mannitol improves lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), a multinational team reports in the American Journal…