NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Revised guidelines for the prevention of early-onset group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in newborns contain “important changes for clinical practice,” and include the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among psychotropic agents administered to elderly patients for behavioral symptoms, atypical antipsychotics are safer than — or at least as safe as —…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors shouldn’t rely on sputum color when deciding whether to prescribe antibiotics to cough patients, according to a new study in the European…
NEW YORK – Women with heavy or prolonged periods benefit from treatment with an oral contraceptive formulation that combines step-down estradiol valerate with step-up dienogest, a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Screening pregnant women for chlamydia using urine samples is just as accurate as when cervical secretions are used, suggests a new study published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hydrocortisone therapy may lower the risk of nosocomial pneumonia in severe trauma patients, according to new research from France. The study also found…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For abortion in the second trimester performed for fetal anomalies or fetal death, dilation and evacuation (D&E) is considerably safer than the labor-induction…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a new study testing the efficacy of atomoxetine in young children with ADHD, kids on the drug improved on some measures of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Premature babies who received a packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusion were more than twice as likely to develop necrotizing entercolitis (NEC) as…