NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rates of acute rejection of lung transplants are not improved when sirolimus is added to the immunosuppressive regimen instead of azathioprine, a multicenter…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a small study indicate that transdermal testosterone improves functional capacity and other parameters in elderly women with chronic heart failure. Writing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children 1 to 3 years old with influenza benefit substantially from treatment with oseltamivir when it’s given within 24 hours of symptom onset,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with unfractionated heparin, bivalirudin used for anticoagulation in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with less bleeding after 1 month…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with bronchiectasis not related to cystic fibrosis benefit significantly from regular twice-daily nebulized gentamicin therapy, a Scottish team reports in the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of whether or not to add steroids to the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis seems to have been answered affirmatively by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Atorvastatin plus vitamins C and E reduce the risk of developing hepatitic steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The widely held view that maintenance treatment of stabilized patients with schizophrenia must be administered every day seems to be refuted by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with NYHA class I or II heart failure benefit from spironolactone therapy as well as those with class III or IV HF,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with acute diarrhea recover more quickly when treated with a hypotonic oral rehydration solution containing zinc and prebiotics than those given standard…