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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with potentially resectable colorectal liver metastases, the use of combined PET and CT imaging (PET-CT) identifies those with occult extrahepatic disease…
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high-risk atrial fibrillation patients who are candidates for anticoagulation, stroke usually occurs if warfarin is not used or drug levels are subtherapeutic,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among spontaneously breathing, very premature infants, surfactant therapy administered within the first hour of life along with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preoperative screening and follow-up treatment if indicated can reduce postoperative infection rates with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients undergoing otolaryngic surgery, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the largest cohort study to date, statin treatment was found to reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, regardless of the drug’s lipophilicity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term follow-up after laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy shows that while many women continue to experience vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain, these symptoms are not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elective repeat cesarean delivery at term but before 39 weeks is associated with higher rates of adverse outcomes, physicians in the US report…
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There appears to be a link between genetically controlled serotonergic modulation of amygdala activity and placebo-induced relief of anxiety, Swedish…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the general population of Japan, coffee consumption is related to a lower risk of cancer of the oral cavity,…
