NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When acute appendicitis is suspected, preoperative assessment by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has very high positive and negative predictive values, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are at considerably heightened risk for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), researchers report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may not improve survival for patients in their 80s and 90s, according to a report in the June 2nd online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with hyperthyroidism who receive antithyroid medication during pregnancy face an increased risk of giving birth to a low birthweight (LBW) infant, researchers…
Peter W. Carmel, MD, 166th President of the American Medical Association, delivered his inaugural address to the House of Delegates on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Sponsored by the…
This is the Tuesday, June 21 edition of our rapidly digestible highlights of the AMA 2011 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates. Sponsored by the American Medical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite promising results in some other lysosomal storage disease, treatment with miglustat does not improve behavioral problems in patients with type III mucopolysaccharidosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The average of five or six blood pressure measurements are needed in order to classify patients with reasonable certainty as having blood pressure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
This is the Monday, June 20 edition of our rapidly digestible highlights of the AMA 2011 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates. Sponsored by the American Medical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cancer appear to fare relatively well when treated with sunitinib before undergoing planned nephrectomy — even though…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia experience a similar reduction in urinary symptoms whether they’re treated with dutasteride or finasteride, according to the results…
