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) – By lowering heart rate, the selective sinoatrial current inhibitor ivabradine improves outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and an elevated heart rate,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome initially treated with the synthetic factor Xa inhibitor fondaparinux do not have significantly lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Canadian study has identified several readily available clinical factors that help determine the risk of fractures in men with prostate cancer undergoing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of the dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-4 inhibitor alogliptin and the thiazolidinedione pioglitazone effectively reduces HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes uncontrolled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Policy Statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics on recommendations for influenza prevention in children for the 2010-2011 season draws attention…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sleep specialists can sometimes diagnose and manage obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with home-based tests instead of in-lab polysomnography, new research suggests. In a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women undergoing hysteroscopy without anesthesia for intrauterine evaluation because of infertility experience much less pain during the examination if misoprostol is administered vaginally…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of inguinal hernia after radical retropubic prostatectomy can be reduced by a simple surgical procedure performed during the operation, a Swedish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among men who’ve had a negative prostate biopsy, the velocity of increasing prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels is not helpful in deciding whether…
