NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinicians report in The American Journal of Surgery that a high white blood cell count or low serum sodium level can help diagnose…
Charles Young, MD, Editor, BMJ Clinical Evidence, Editor in Chief of BMJ In Practice, discusses evidence-based information in medicine. Doctor’s Digest single topic reference guides provide physicians with…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an MRI study suggest that the brain may be affected very early in the course of systemic lupus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Objectively measured sleep duration is inversely associated with incident coronary artery calcification in middle-aged adults, independent of traditional risk factors, according to prospective…
Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a case-control study suggest that psoriatic arthritis patients may have “subtle” cardiac conduction disturbances. “In surveying the literature, scant data were…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Computed tomography (CT) of the chest can serve a dual purpose in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), measuring both the severity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As indicators of arousal, elevations in the heart and respiration rates immediately after a traumatic event are predictive of future posttraumatic stress disorder…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be at increased risk for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to the results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Definitive chemoradiotherapy is an effective treatment than can be dispensed with no significant toxicity in elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer, according…
