NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vaccinating pregnant women against influenza is a highly effective way of keeping their infants from being hospitalized with influenza in the first six…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Routine screening for coagulation abnormalities before oocyte retrieval for in vitro fertilization (IVF) is costly and not clinically effective, researchers from Israel found…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether delivery is immediate of deferred when fetal health is compromised by growth restriction appears to make no difference to outcomes at school…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Magnetic resonance imaging of ovarian tumors is useful in predicting whether the lesion is malignant or benign, thereby helping to guide the therapeutic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A selective with antiprogestin effects, CDB-2914, reduces uterine fibroid size and bleeding, and improves quality of life in affected women, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis indicate that antenatal steroids seem safe and reduce adverse outcomes in preterm infants when the pregnancy is complicated by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The school performance at age 16 of children born to epileptic mothers correlates with their degree of exposure to anticonvulsant drugs in utero,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnancy outcomes are improved for overweight women when they adopt a low-glycemic load diet compared with a low-fat diet, a Massachusetts-based group reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of in vitro testing indicate that silver impregnation of urinary catheters has little effect on bacterial adherence, reinforcing findings from clinical studies…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A dose-ranging study of onabotulinumtoxinA, better known as Botox, injected into the detrusor muscle for the treatment of refractory overactive bladder indicates that…