The Covid-19 Early Treatment Fund was launched to provide funding for research in order to "find an existing drug or drug combination that, when given early, reduces hospitalization…
In an interview for NBC News, Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, affiliate assistant professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among couples wanting to conceive, the routine practice of having men with inflammatory bowel disease discontinue thiopurine medications is not necessary, a Spanish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a finding of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on cervical cytology are more likely than those without AGC to have malignant breast…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and biliary stent placement are more likely to develop pancreatitis after the procedure than those not requiring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rates of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) are lower in hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease on amlodipine when candesartan is added to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injecting bone cement into acute osteoporotic compression fractures leads to almost immediate and long-lasting pain relief – and at reasonable cost, a European…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Concerns that bisphosphonate drugs used to treat osteoporosis might increase the risk of developing esophageal cancer have been put to rest by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on warfarin need not discontinue treatment when they have a fecal occult blood test (FOBT), as it does not affect the predictive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to earlier concerns, the use of ultrasound contrast agents in echocardiography is not associated with an increased incidence of myocardial infarction or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For couples undergoing fertility treatment with intrauterine insemination (IUI), pregnancy rates are similar whether single or double insemination is performed in the same…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For selected patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, a split course of radiation given over a short period works well…
