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) – Patients who begin dialysis when kidney disease is at a relatively early stage have an increased risk of dying in the following year,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Updated guidelines compiled by an expert panel of cardiologists and gastroenterologists address the issue of a possible drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Forget those headlines from the past few years linking hypercholesterolemia in midlife to risk of dementia in old age. Data presented in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Short-term testosterone treatment in frail elderly men improves muscle mass and strength, but the effects don’t last more than 6 months after treatment…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When children develop a skin rash after being treated with a beta-lactam, the cause is more likely to be related to a viral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risks involved in the endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms are about the same whether the aneurysms is bigger than 3 mm…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of when to resume warfarin therapy after a patient has an intracranial hemorrhage is answered in the December issue of Stroke.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, instead of remaining in the left lateral position, the improvement in luminal distension leads…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with severe aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular systolic function may do better with transcatheter implantation of a prosthetic aortic valve than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very elderly patients, perhaps up to 100 years old, with acute ischemic stroke benefit from timely thrombolytic therapy to the same degree as…
