NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Aortic root dilation is uncommon in highly trained competitive athletes and is not likely to be caused by exercise training. Consequently, aortic root…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with overactive bladder who have not responded to behavioral therapy and treatment with oxybutynin or tolterodine may be helped by treatment with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high vascular risk patients, addition of clopidogrel to treatment with acetylsalicylic acid does not help minimize untoward events, researchers report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with epilepsy sustain more injuries generally than do unaffected individuals, with rates of some types of injury such as head fractures being…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The mineral composition of kidney stones reported by commercial laboratories is often inaccurate, investigators at Indiana University, Indianapolis report in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As is seen in certain other gastrointestinal illnesses, the prevalence of low-trauma fractures is higher among patients with chronic pancreatitis than in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly subjects who need to void two or more times during the night have an increased risk of sustaining a fracture and of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite numerous advances in treatment, evidence-based outpatient therapy for congestive heart failure (CHF) has not improved since 2002, researchers report in the August…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – HER2 protein and gene expression predict the response of breast cancer patients to adjuvant trastuzumab therapy, but which test provides the best information?…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The 10-year outcomes data from the MASS II trial comparing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and medical treatment for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is safe for treating kidney stones in children, with no impact on kidney function, prospective study results suggest.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cervical cancer prevention trial conducted in South Africa shows that a single test for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection followed by cryotherapy in…
