NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Major surgery often leads to transient thyroid hormone derangements. When it does, short-duration T3 therapy has no apparent benefit, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative dexamethasone does not boost the risk of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, according to a large retrospective study reported in the August Archives of Otolaryngology…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with mild to moderate asthma have better pulmonary function and require less rescue medication if they take budesonide/formoterol (BUD/FM; Symbicort) twice a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gynecologic side effects of the third-generation selective estrogen receptor modulator lasofoxifene are generally acceptable, researchers report, and “contribute to an overall favorable benefit-risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with heart failure have an increasing mortality risk as their dose of furosemide increases, after taking into account multiple confounders, a…
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) – After induction chemoimmunotherapy in previously untreated symptomatic patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), consolidation therapy with the monoclonal anti-CD52 antibody alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) improved…
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…