NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acute hyperglycemia, even without diabetes, raises the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy and death in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Menses and ovulation are more likely to resume spontaneously after chemotherapy if women also receive a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analog – but pregnancy…
World renowned sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer stopped by The Doctor’s Channel to talk about something other than sex. Dr. Ruth wants to make sure that all physicians…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The most effective way to prevent a first stroke is not well established – what works for the primary prevention of myocardial infarction…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adjunctive treatment with omalizumab can help patients with moderate to severe persistent allergic asthma achieve a lasting reduction in the amount of corticosteroids…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-dose naproxen given close to the dosing of aspirin interferes with aspirin’s antiplatelet effects, according to a report in the November 23rd online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After brain death in potential lung donors, a “lung protective” strategy can increase the odds that the lungs will be viable for transplant,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Taking levothyroxine on an empty stomach at bedtime, instead of in the morning before breakfast, significantly improves thyroid hormone levels and many patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Skeletal surveys are often critical to the diagnosis of physical abuse in children, researchers report in the December 13th online issue of Pediatrics.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Noninvasive uterine electromyography (EMG) identifies true preterm labor more accurately than clinical methods now in use, new research shows. “It can therefore identify…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new test makes feasible the early detection of Turner syndrome, according to a report in the December 8 issue of The Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of aspirin and clopidogrel is no better than aspirin alone for preventing saphenous vein graft (SVG) intimal hyperplasia after coronary artery…
