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) – A substantial proportion of women with cervical cancer who receive curative-intent radiotherapy will soon develop pelvic fractures, clinicians from the University of Texas…
EW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-risk patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with angioplasty can be discharged within 72 hours, Canadian investigators suggest. Although STEMI patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new feeding tube that’s inserted while attached to an ultra-thin gastroscope will avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of blind tube placement, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) abacavir and didanosine, and the protease inhibitors (PIs) indinavir and lopinavir-ritonavir, all increase the risk of myocardial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily treatment with diazoxide prompts a decrease in HbA1c in patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, Norwegian researchers report in the December…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with migraine, IV prochlorperazine with diphenhydramine is more effective than subcutaneous sumatriptan, a small prospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The incidence of acute kidney injury after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is higher than 10%, a Canadian study shows. As reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – All cesarean sections put women at increased risk of adverse events, including death, according to the World Health Organization’s Global Survey on Maternal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Just like cocaine and other drugs that increase brain dopamine levels, the dopamine agonists used to treat Parkinson disease can also produce a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
