NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The investigational GLP-1 receptor antagonist lixisenatide significantly reduces postprandial glucose excursions and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes who have not been…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotic therapy in the first week of acute mild to moderate sinusitis is not worth it and should be avoided, conclude the authors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a history of nephrolithiasis have higher fractional calcium absorption, but consuming adequate calcium reduces fractional absorption and may help prevent kidney…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of tenofovir in HIV-infected women during pregnancy is not associated with small-for-gestational age (SGA) or low birth weight (LBW) in their offspring,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cause of visible hematuria can be determined in almost half of cases, according to a report from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of ketamine with propofol, known as ketofol, offers little advantage over propofol alone for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia, in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a study of very low birth weight infants (VLBWIs), a strategy of prophylactic bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) followed by early…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with type 2 diabetes whose glucose levels are inadequately controlled on high doses of insulin, the addition of dapagliflozin improves HbA1c…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A medical directive allowing triage nurses in the emergency department to initiate oral steroid therapy in children presenting with moderate to severe acute…