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) – Use of insulin glargine or detemir rather than NPH insulin does not reduce the risk of ketoacidosis in children and adolescents with type…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injection of Macroplastique (Uroplasty), a urethral bulking agent, can improve female stress urinary incontinence for at least two years, new research shows. Exactly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s no good evidence that maintenance therapy improves the outcome of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to a meta-analysis published February 25th in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When statins alone can’t reverse dyslipidemia, the thyroid hormone analogue eprotirome may be helpful, new research suggests. In a 12-week study of 189…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Four out of five children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis had a good clinical response to abatacept during a long-term open-label extension trial. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A treatment called DRIFT (Drainage, Irrigation, and Fibrinolytic Therapy) may improve developmental outcomes and survival in preterm infants with posthemorrhagic cerebral ventricular dilatation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Just 38% of patients with suspected cardiac disease are found to have obstructive coronary disease on elective cardiac catheterization, new research shows. This…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with Barrett’s high-grade dysplasia or early esophageal adenocarcinoma, endoscopic resection improves staging and “dramatically” reduces esophagectomy rates, Australian physicians report. Esophagectomy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin use by women cuts their risk of primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) events by roughly a third, which is similar to the risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients report higher quality of life with continuous intraperitoneal versus subcutaneous insulin, Dutch investigators have found. The researchers had previously reported that continuous…
