NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of progression to AIDS in HIV-infected patients is significantly reduced when combined antiretroviral therapy is started at a CD4 count threshold…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It is well established that sleep disordered breathing increases the risk of heart disease. It now appears that incident cardiovascular disease is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of etanercept and cyclophosphamide might be a risky one in patients with Wegener’s Granulomatosis, especially with those who have long-term, chronic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Phase III trial found that inhaled mannitol helped decrease respiratory symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis. In the study, published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most patients with localized renal cancer, simple enucleation may provide results equivalent to those of standard partial nephrectomy, Italian researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant women with objective evidence of abnormal vaginal flora, clindamycin administered before 22 weeks of gestation significantly reduces the rate of late…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with work-related asthma, a reduction in exposure to sensitizing agents, rather than complete avoidance, is not likely to improve the condition…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with standard blood gas analysis, the Masimo Radical 7 multiwave pulse oximeter measures carboxyhemoglobin noninvasively with acceptable accuracy and can be used…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from China indicates that vardenafil has favorable effects in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Dr. Zhi-Cheng Jing, at Tongji University…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women undergoing in vitro fertilization, the need for salpingectomy does not reduce subsequent ovarian response to controlled hyperstimulation for oocyte retrieval, a…