NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with chronic uveitis, adalimumab appears more effective than infliximab in maintaining remission, according to a small cohort study by Italian investigators.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prolonged exposure therapy, a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is effective for patients with combat- and terror-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The current U.S. system for allocating donated livers – which is based on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score – is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Standard echocardiography will confirm or exclude a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in most children, without the need for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), clinicians from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients with early active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) start rituximab along with methotrexate (MTX), they have significantly better physical function and health-related quality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Office-based endometrial ablation for menorrhagia is equally effective with thermal balloon ablation or bipolar radiofrequency, U.K. researchers say. Six months after randomization and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug-eluting stents (DES) seem to be safer and more effective than bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts (SVG), according to a systematic review…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The selective T-cell co-stimulation modulator abatacept safely and effectively treats psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in many patients, according to a report in the December…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Current data do not support the widespread use of MRI for the diagnosis and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), researchers conclude in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Band ligation of bleeding esophageal varices can be impossible when blood obscures the endoscopic view – but giving erythromycin before the procedure will…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a pilot study of patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), adding clopidogrel to aspirin did not reduce overall graft occlusion,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adults who are admitted to the hospital solely because of an acute bout of dizziness are three times more likely to suffer a…
