NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depression related to peginterferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C increases with duration of use, but reverses following treatment cessation, according to data from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a new study reaffirm the importance of treating heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) with statins, linking therapy with reductions in all-cause,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The daily use of strontium ranelate can reduce the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women, between 50 and 65 years of age,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using catheters impregnated with rifampicin-miconazole instead of standard catheters reduces the incidence of catheter-related bacteremia in patients with short-term catheter use at the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vitamin D deficiency is associated with myocardial dysfunction, sudden cardiac death (SCD), and death due to heart failure, German researchers report. Vitamin D,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with a single dose of PRO 140, a monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 chemokine receptor, provides potent and prolonged antiviral activity in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sustained clinical improvements in signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are apparent within one week of initiating treatment with a novel pegylated TNF…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elective appendectomy performed at the time of cesarean delivery does not increase inpatient morbidity, according to results of a randomized controlled trial. “Based…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As prophylaxis against ventilator-associated pneumonia, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum 299 (Lp299) is as effective as the antiseptic chlorhexidine in reducing the pathogenic…
