NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Anemia of prematurity is associated with poor feeding and weight gain. A new study finds that correcting AOP with packed red blood cell…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In real-world patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), adding rituximab to first-line chemotherapy improves…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large population-based cohort from Italy, aspirin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular events was associated with a significantly increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Generally, the accuracy of antigen-based point-of-care tests for hepatitis B infection is high, but the sensitivity of antibody-based tests needs to be improved,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Reperfusion-induced myocardial edema during percutaneous coronary intervention for MI can be attenuated by applying ischemic conditioning at the start of reperfusion, a French…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a retrospective observational study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine online June 4 indicate that in patients with atrial fibrillation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Monitoring carbon dioxide levels in addition to standard pulse oximetry in patients undergoing propofol sedation during colonoscopy reduces the incidence of oxygen desaturation,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For conversion of new-onset atrial fibrillation, intravenous amiodarone plus oral ranolazine is more effective than amiodarone alone, a Greek team reports in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients treated in childhood for Hodgkin lymphoma or Wilms tumor are at particularly high risk for developing colorectal cancer at a relatively young…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive control of blood pressure does have a clinically significant positive or negative impact on depression or patient-reported health-related quality of life, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) is effective in preventing pain after ureteric stent removal Oregon-based researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the antianginal drug ranolazine before elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) significantly reduced procedure-related myocardial injury in a small pilot study from…
