NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More children with bipolar I disorder (manic or mixed phase) respond to the antipsychotic risperidone than to lithium or the anticonvulsant divalproex sodium,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sublingual and oral immunotherapy may help some children with milk allergy, but clinical desensitization is quickly lost and systemic reactions occur with oral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infusion of bone marrow-derived stem cells after selective portal vein embolization (PVE) was associated with better outcomes of extended right hepatectomy in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1 (CIN 1) found on biopsy provides no information on the risk of progression to CIN 3 beyond that…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), triple antithrombotic therapy significantly increases the risk of major bleeding compared…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The effects of an H1 receptor antagonist in reducing allergen-induced nasal symptoms appear to be enhanced with the addition of an H3 receptor…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a child has a Staphylococcus aureus skin abscess, decolonizing all household members rather than just the individual patient leads to a lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three years of weekly treatment with a sustained-release formulation of growth hormone is as safe and effective as standard daily growth hormone (GH)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients requiring chronic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) treatment develop fewer gastric or duodenal ulcers if they take ibuprofen with high-dose famotidine in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term outcomes are better for patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease when they undergo off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting rather than percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For the nonsurgical management of first-trimester miscarriage, delayed medical treatment (i.e., monitoring for expulsion followed, if needed, by mifepristone and/or misoprostol) “may not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In methamphetamine-dependent adults, treatment with the anticonvulsant topiramate (Topamax; Ortho-McNeil Neurologics) does little to promote abstinence, but it seems to help those on…
