NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children diagnosed with ulcerative colitis have a good chance of attaining remission after 1 year of treatment with azathioprine or 6-mercaptopurine, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An updated guideline from the American Academy of Neurology recommends plasmapheresis for severe relapses in multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory demyelinating neurologic disorders.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depending on the particular regimen, insulin analogs can help 35% to 64% of patients with type 2 diabetes achieve the recommended hemoglobin A1C…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who present 12 to 24 hours after onset of symptoms should be considered for reperfusion by primary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new meta-analysis shows adjunctive subcutaneous omalizumab may help patients with uncontrolled allergic asthma withdraw from or cut back on corticosteroids. Researchers also…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For conversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation, vernakalant acted more rapidly and was more effective than amiodarone in an international study. As reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a prospective comparative study, 32-channel 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 64-slice computed tomography (CT) angiography similarly identified significant coronary stenosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim) is as effective as warfarin in preventing stroke and systemic embolism after cardioversion in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When infertile men with palpable varicoceles have them repaired, their semen parameters improve and their partners are more likely to become pregnant spontaneously,…
Doctors often prescribe unfractionated heparin to obese patients with venous thromboembolism below the recommended doses based on body weight, according to a new study. As a result, some…
