Each week we present you with the latest featured study from the research teams at JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association. Check out the video for intriguing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In response, in part, to the availability of new vaccines, the Infectious Diseases Society of America has issued an update to their 2002…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is independently associated with high rates of mortality, myocardial infarction and stent thrombosis, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of the largest and longest study of gastrin biology in Barrett’s esophagus to date provide further evidence that long-term therapy with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In detecting prostate cancer, no single prostate specific antigen (PSA) cut-off value achieves the likelihood ratios usually required of a screening test, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who become mothers are more likely to develop the metabolic syndrome during middle age than are their nulliparous counterparts, prospective study findings…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency are at increased risk for systolic hypertension in the coming years, according to study findings presented Thursday…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who undergo vaginal hysterectomy and reconstructive pelvic surgery during the same operation are more likely to have perioperative complications than those who…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that over half of men who choose watchful waiting as the initial strategy for prostate cancer require no treatment on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older patients with stable coronary disease, adding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to optimal medical therapy neither improves nor worsens their outcomes, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the 2007-2008 flu season, the licensed inactivated flu vaccine was 50% more effective than the live attenuated vaccine in preventing laboratory-confirmed symptomatic…
