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…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses low back pain and weight loss, and talks about how 10 pounds of weight in…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine as a problem of brain excitability and chemistry rather…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with middle cerebral artery occlusion, an alteplase dosage of 0.6 mg/kg IV is comparable to a 0.9 mg/kg dosage for achieving…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Operative mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is higher in women, even after adjustment for preoperative risk factors, according to a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It makes no difference whether internal tocodynamometry or external monitoring is used during induced or augmented labor – either way, the rate of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms 3 mm or smaller in diameter is difficult and risky — but it’s successful in over 90% of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with coronary shock and multivessel coronary disease, 30-day and 1-year mortality rates appear to be similar after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In an update to their 2005 recommendation, the US Preventive Services Task Force now recommends that clinicians screen children and adolescents ages 6…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single 6-mL intra-articular injection of hylan G-F 20 (Synvisc-One, Genzyme Biosurgery) safely reduces knee osteoarthritis pain for 26 weeks, results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than a third of patients undergoing routine outpatient endoscopic procedures are at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to findings…
