NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients taking clopidogrel because of their high risk for cardiovascular events are more likely to have a major event if they carry the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Azithromycin is not only an effective treatment for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) that occurs in many lung transplant patients, it can also prevent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The notable accumulation of visceral fat that occurs in some patients with HIV who are on antiretroviral drugs can be reduced substantially by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and elevate natriuretic peptide levels can benefit from treatment with various suppressors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The adverse effects of conventional amphotericin B for treating acute cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS patients can be reduced significantly by using the liposomal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer harboring susceptibility mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) did better with gefitinib given as first-line therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with diabetes and hypertension, an antihypertensive regimen combining an ACE inhibitor with a calcium channel blocker provides better protection against cardiovascular…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with severe acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was just as effective and safe as ciprofloxacin in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the treatment of nodular goiter, the effect of radioiodine (I-131) therapy is potentiated by neoadjuvant administration of recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone…