By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can virtually eliminate central sleep apnea (CSA), it does not reduce sleep…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pretreatment with dacarbazine, a DNA alkylating agent, enhances vaccine-induced antitumor immunity in patients with melanoma, according to a report…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) appear to have a significantly higher risk of becoming clinically depressed than healthy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women, a 1-day regimen of nitrofurantoin is significantly less effective than the standard 7-day regimen, results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two randomized, controlled trials reported in the New England Journal of Medicine for January 22 call into question the use of corticosteroids for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Manual thrombus aspiration during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves myocardial reperfusion and reduces final infarct size in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even in the absence of ischemic heart disease, exercise capacity is limited in people with abnormal left ventricular diastolic function, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Since the end of 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration has received nine reports of fatalities due to babesiosis transmitted by transfusions,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The long-term survival of children with severe aplastic anemia who respond to immunosuppressive therapy with antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporine is “excellent, at about…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is significantly elevated in patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to a large case-control study of…