NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study comparing individual therapy and family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa in adolescents has shown that both can be effective, but results seem…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients at high risk for pancreatic cancer can be effectively screened with imaging studies and genetic testing, allowing curable neoplasm to be identified…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants and children should undergo comprehensive screening for iron deficiency and anemia, and should receive age-appropriate dietary intake to prevent iron deficiency, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a small study indicate that transdermal testosterone improves functional capacity and other parameters in elderly women with chronic heart failure. Writing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Weekly progesterone given to women with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) does not extend gestation and cannot be recommended, researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children 1 to 3 years old with influenza benefit substantially from treatment with oseltamivir when it’s given within 24 hours of symptom onset,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with unfractionated heparin, bivalirudin used for anticoagulation in unselected patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with less bleeding after 1 month…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – HIV patients with fully suppressed viral load on standard triple therapy should not be switched to a maintenance regimen of ritonavir-boosted lopinavir monotherapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with bronchiectasis not related to cystic fibrosis benefit significantly from regular twice-daily nebulized gentamicin therapy, a Scottish team reports in the American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The diagnostic accuracy of rotational coronary angiography is as good as that of conventional angiography, but it significantly reduces the amount of radiation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Determining the low-density lipoprotein particle (LDL-p) concentration in women with HIV doesn’t seem to be worthwhile, as doing so adds little information beyond…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of whether or not to add steroids to the treatment of pneumococcal meningitis seems to have been answered affirmatively by the…
