NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data on more than 3500 women indicates that transvaginal sonographic cervical length can predict spontaneous preterm birth in twin pregnancies, researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reducing costs may be an advantage of using procalcitonin levels to predict bacteremia in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, according to a paper in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) The earlier a patient with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receives clopidogrel before primary coronary intervention (PCI), the better, according to a study in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with febrile neutropenia on high doses of cefepime may be at risk for neurological toxicity, according to a study published online July…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) can’t be reliably estimated via catheters inserted through the femoral vein, researchers report in the July issue of Chest…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For children and very lean adults who use a 5 mm insulin needle, angling the injection into a pinched skin fold reduces pain…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – HIV therapy needs to start earlier and guidelines are being changed to reflect that, officials said this weekend at the International AIDS Conference…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sonography performed to investigate endometrial pathology in women with abnormal bleeding is easier to perform with gel instillation to distend the uterine cavity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cases of traumatic occult pneumothorax, observation is apparently just as safe as the usual practice of immediate tube thoracostomy, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The practice of inserting a filter in the inferior ven cava before performing gastric bypass surgery does not reduce the postoperative occurrence of…