NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating rheumatoid arthritis aggressively in the early stages, aiming for remission, produces good outcomes that are maintained for at least a decade- this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins may be overused in patients without cardiovascular disease, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers pooled data from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The quadrivalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine is associated with twice as many febrile seizures as same-day vaccination with separate MMR and varicella vaccines, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two reports today in two separate journals — a meta-analysis and a large retrospective study — provide more evidence linking the thiazolidinedione rosiglitazone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients taking clopidogrel because of their high risk for cardiovascular events are more likely to have a major event if they carry the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy can abolish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) or significantly reduce their frequency in many instances, a British team has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with symptomatic uterine fibroids wishing to maintain fertility, laparoscopic myomectomy with transient occlusion of the uterine artery during the procedure may…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptures, expedient endovascular repair in selected patients can save lives, an international group reports. They point out in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Azithromycin is not only an effective treatment for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) that occurs in many lung transplant patients, it can also prevent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The notable accumulation of visceral fat that occurs in some patients with HIV who are on antiretroviral drugs can be reduced substantially by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and elevate natriuretic peptide levels can benefit from treatment with various suppressors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – What appears to be a blue nevus might be a cutaneous melanoma metastasis. High resolution ultrasonography can aid dermatologists in making the differential…
