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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with heavy menstrual bleeding may find that the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena; Bayer Schering) is more effective than oral medroxyprogesterone acetate in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The intensity of bortezomib-based regimens used to treat multiple myeloma in elderly patents can be reduced in order to lessen toxicity, without jeopardizing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rapid fluid replenishment “remarkably” improves the detection rate of patent foramen ovale (PFO) by transesophageal echocardiography, a multicenter team reports in the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After surgically induced remission of Crohn’s disease, treatment with mesalamine reduces the risk of relapse somewhat; sulfasalazine, however, has no apparent benefit, according…