NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Limiting thyroid tests to high-risk women will miss most cases of thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy, randomized trial results show. Furthermore, when low-risk women…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women over 55, simple ovarian cysts are common, usually resolving or persisting without progression, according to data from the prospective Prostate, Lung,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – L-carnitine supplements can improve liver function, liver histology and other manifestations of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), Italian researchers say. “L-carnitine supplementation induces regression of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The biomarker procalcitonin can help guide treatment of severe bacterial infections in the intensive care unit (ICU), French investigators report online in The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ventilator-associated pneumonia is less likely to be fatal when patients are intubated with a silver-coated endotracheal tube, according to a post hoc analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When colonoscopy is not possible, combining sigmoidoscopy and a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) would be superior for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening than either…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although patients with liver disease often have an increased international normalized ratio (INR), their coagulopathy does not protect against venous thromboembolism (VTE), new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Genital ulcers are common in HIV-infected women when antiretroviral therapy (ART) begins, particularly when CD4 counts are low or when women have had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Old age has a greater impact on abdominal surgery outcomes than previously reported, according to two papers in the December Archives of Surgery.…