NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In diabetic patients, sirolimus-eluting stents reduce the risk for coronary artery restenosis compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents, a meta-analysis shows. Because the relative efficacy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment of depression in low-income minorities with poorly controlled diabetes improved HbA1c and systolic blood pressure, investigators report in the December issue of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An investigational drug called motavizumab may offer better protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) than palivizumab in high risk children, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the number of prescribed antithrombotic drugs after a first myocardial infarction increases, so does the risk of hospitalization for bleeding, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of undersized drug-eluting stents for saphenous vein graft lesions may reduce the long-term incidence of emboli and enzyme elevations without increasing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with bacterial meningitis, age and presenting neurologic status are the most important predictors of hearing loss, and neither dexamethasone nor glycerol…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In type 2 diabetics with multiple comorbidities, tight glycemic control does not provide the same cardiovascular benefits that it does in diabetics with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), adding divalproex to stimulant therapy can improve refractory aggression, a small study suggests. “Stimulant medications…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Core needle biopsies seem almost as accurate as open biopsy in detecting breast cancer, and less prone to complications, a meta-analysis has found.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancer recurrence rates are lower with aromatase inhibitors than with tamoxifen, according to meta-analyses published online by the Journal of Clinical Oncology.…