NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nutritional support, mainly in the form of oral nutritional supplements, boosts protein and energy intake, body weight and grip strength in malnourished patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In African Americans with moderate-to-severe asthma, treatment for a year with an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol is safe and reduces asthma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A randomized, multicenter trial has confirmed that myofascial physical therapy is an effective treatment for women with newly symptomatic interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hypoxemia is common in pulmonary hypertension patients during commercial air travel and supplemental in-flight oxygen may be of benefit, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the investigational agent perampanel to concomitant antiepilepsy therapy reduces seizure frequency in patients with refractory partial-onset seizures, according to the results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation and previous GI ulcers, a higher risk of major bleeding with oral anticoagulation is balanced out by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily low-dose aspirin reduces not only cardiovascular mortality but also nonvascular mortality – and cancer mortality in particular — after relatively short duration…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A combined oral contraceptive containing nomegestrol acetate and 17beta-estradiol (E2) taken in a 24–4-day regimen is somewhat more effective in preventing pregnancy than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite a guideline in Canada recommending the use of opioids to relieve refractory dyspnea in COPD patients, physicians there are reluctant to do…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A population-based study conducted in Canada has uncovered an association between starting fibrate therapy and an increase in serum creatinine in older patients,…