F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, shares insights from a review of recent study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine examining duty-hours rules at 63 residency…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Herd immunity is not enough to protect unvaccinated children against pertussis. A case-control study based on detailed, individual-level clinical data indicates that children…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining hepatic artery infusion of floxuridine/dexamethasone with systemic oxaliplatin and irinotecan can make liver metastases from colorectal cancer resectable in about half of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is often undiagnosed, and therefore untreated, in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Full-term neonates delivered through elective repeat cesarean have higher rates of respiratory morbidity, hypoglycemia, and admission to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a small study of rheumatoid arthritis patients, treatment with the anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agent infliximab appeared to increase the antioxidative capacity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Advanced prostate cancer appears to be of a more aggressive type when it occurs in young men, leading to dramatically higher cancer-specific mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If anybody needed more hours in their day it would probably be a patient on chronic hemodialsys – spending their productive hours confined…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a large meta-analysis of trial data suggest that blood pressure-lowering drugs can help prevent cardiovascular disease in any at-risk individual,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to develop acute lung injury (ALI), according to study findings presented Tuesday at the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the acute treatment of persistent insomnia, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) plus zolpidem is more effective than CBT alone, but in the long-term,…
