NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may not improve survival for patients in their 80s and 90s, according to a report in the June 2nd online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with hyperthyroidism who receive antithyroid medication during pregnancy face an increased risk of giving birth to a low birthweight (LBW) infant, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite promising results in some other lysosomal storage disease, treatment with miglustat does not improve behavioral problems in patients with type III mucopolysaccharidosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The average of five or six blood pressure measurements are needed in order to classify patients with reasonable certainty as having blood pressure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cancer appear to fare relatively well when treated with sunitinib before undergoing planned nephrectomy — even though…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia experience a similar reduction in urinary symptoms whether they’re treated with dutasteride or finasteride, according to the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women treated for heavy menstrual bleeding, those undergoing endometrial ablation are less likely than those having a hysterectomy to need subsequent surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using intra-arterial chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma can produce a “dramatic response,” but also comes with the risk of both mild and severe side…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scanning is not an accurate test for identifying children with dilating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), suggest results of a…