NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving high-flow oxygen therapy for 15 minutes to emergency department patients with headaches provides rapid relief and reduces hospital stays, use of CT…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may increase the risk of early delivery, low Apgar score at 5 minutes, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sildenafil (Viagra) is associated with a number of side effects, but data on long-term harms are still lacking, a systematic review and meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) early after acute myocardial infarction does not decrease overall mortality, investigators report October 8 in The New England…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In non-diabetic patients with hypertensive kidney disease, the risk of hyperkalemia with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is “small,” according to research reported…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People over 75 years who undergo colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy are six times more likely to experience a colon perforation than younger individuals,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Upper gastrointestinal tract pathology appears to be the norm, not the exception, in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and in people who…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (RFTVR) of the soft palate combined with partial uvulectomy is a relatively safe and effective treatment for primary snoring,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most patients who receive drug-eluting stents for unprotected left main disease, restenosis can be managed with a minimally invasive approach, including placement…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing heart failure-related pleural effusions, pleural fluid levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) are more accurate than BNP levels, say researchers…