NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a child has a Staphylococcus aureus skin abscess, decolonizing all household members rather than just the individual patient leads to a lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three years of weekly treatment with a sustained-release formulation of growth hormone is as safe and effective as standard daily growth hormone (GH)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – To combat psoriasis, a combination of topical therapies seems to work better than topical monotherapy, according to results of a systematic review and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tonsillectomy is an effective treatment for children with dysphagia related to enlarged tonsils, according to results of a prospective cohort study. Removing the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Results of a retrospective study confirm that the Rule of 7’s prediction tool accurately identifies children who are unlikely to have Lyme meningitis, investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Treatment for up to 24 months with fesoterodine (Toviaz; Pfizer Inc) may yield sustained improvement in bladder problems and health-related quality of life in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In neonatal resuscitation, routing of a central venous catheter via the umbilical vein can be reliably guided by thoraco-abdominal X-ray or ultrasound, while…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lowering blood pressure in patients with prehypertensive blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of stroke, according the results of a meta-analysis reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After stabilization with aripiprazole therapy, children with bipolar disorder may continue to benefit from maintenance treatment with the atypical antidepressant, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients have chronic low back pain or sciatica, getting an MRI before giving an epidural steroid injection does not improve outcomes and…