NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients who develop febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy but who are otherwise stable can be treated as outpatients, with no greater risk for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnancy outcomes among women with gestational diabetes are similar whether they follow a low-glycemic index (LGI) diet or a conventional high-fiber diet, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis of randomized trials indicate that percutaneous coronary intervention for left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is associated with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Random blood glucose (RBG) measurements early in pregnancy can identify women with overt diabetes in pregnancy (ODIP), researchers from UK report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research supports current clinical guidance to perform partial nephrectomy (PN) when possible in patients with clinically organ-confined renal cell tumors 7 centimeters…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most patients with allergic reactions to clopidogrel do not need to stop the drug or switch to another antiplatelet drug but rather can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A simple ultrasound examination of the femoral artery puncture site before elective percutaneous coronary intervention decreases the rate of subsequent vascular complications, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis (UC), mesalamine can be taken once a day rather than twice or three times daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with a limited number of brain metastases, treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery alone is as good as whole-brain radiotherapy plus stereotactic radiosurgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating patients with ischemic stroke up to 22 hours after onset with the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa platelet receptor antagonist tirofiban does not increase cerebral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension with more than one class of pulmonary vasodilator does not decrease mortality or slow progression of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preterm infants requiring respiratory support do not benefit from inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), according to the results of a meta-analysis of individual patient…
