NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men whose baseline PSA is less than 2.0 ng/mL are unlikely to benefit from further screening for prostate cancer, according to findings reported…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The mineral composition of kidney stones reported by commercial laboratories is often inaccurate, investigators at Indiana University, Indianapolis report in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical biopsies guided by colposcopy are accurate in confirming suspected cases of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), but the negative predictive value is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors should make sure immunizations are up to date before cochlear implant surgery in children, new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disinfectant use and other simple interventions are helpful in combating Clostridium difficile, a major infectious cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reducing costs may be an advantage of using procalcitonin levels to predict bacteremia in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, according to a paper in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) in patients with ST-segment elevation MI are better when the procedure is performed via the radial artery…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of the Department of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem Hadassah’s role in forensics. Specifically, he discusses the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The distress of multiple venipunctures in hospitalized pediatric patients can be avoided by obtaining blood samples through a peripheral venous catheter placed for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is superior to the standard guaiac-based FOBT for detecting advanced colorectal neoplasms and cancer, say…