NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with metabolic syndrome and mixed dyslipidemia, treatment with fenofibric acid in combination with a statin reduces the prevalence of metabolic syndrome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly men with limitations in mobility who are treated with testosterone to improve strength appear to be at increased risk of cardiovascular-related adverse…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating rheumatoid arthritis aggressively in the early stages, aiming for remission, produces good outcomes that are maintained for at least a decade- this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins may be overused in patients without cardiovascular disease, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers pooled data from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The quadrivalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine is associated with twice as many febrile seizures as same-day vaccination with separate MMR and varicella vaccines, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two reports today in two separate journals — a meta-analysis and a large retrospective study — provide more evidence linking the thiazolidinedione rosiglitazone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients taking clopidogrel because of their high risk for cardiovascular events are more likely to have a major event if they carry the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with symptomatic uterine fibroids wishing to maintain fertility, laparoscopic myomectomy with transient occlusion of the uterine artery during the procedure may…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of the Department of General Surgery and the Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem, Jerusalem describes the hospital’s work outside of…