NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In preterm infants born at a gestational age of 32 weeks or younger, keeping oxygen saturation low in the first few weeks of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Superficial, or “nuisance,” bleeding troubled more than a quarter of patients on dual-antiplatelet therapy following the implantation of drug-eluting stents, according to new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delivery of the neonate via emergency cesarean section occurs more quickly with a vertical skin incision than a transverse skin incision, but this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-infected adults with low plasma zinc levels, supplementation at nutritional levels for 18 months prevents immune failure during antiretroviral therapy and reduces…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving a single antenatal course of intramuscular corticosteroids after 34 weeks of gestation significantly enhances fetal lung maturity in pregnancies with documented fetal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statins do not reduce fracture risk or increase bone mineralization in postmenopausal women, according to a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with a newer 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanner may be less accurate than with an older 1.5 T…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For distinguishing epithelial ovarian cancer from a benign mass, an algorithm that uses HE4 and CA125 is more sensitive and objective than the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Oral probiotic bacteria were more effective than antibiotics for infectious mastitis during lactation, Spanish researchers report. Bacterial counts in milk were significantly lower…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In mice, treating primary respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with the cysteinyl leukotriene 1 receptor antagonist montelukast reduces airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation after RSV…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When hypothyroid women become pregnant, they need to increase their levothyroxine dose by two tablets per week, or 29%, a new trial has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Heparin bridging while withholding warfarin before implantation of a heart rhythm device substantially increases the risk of bleeding, new research shows. By contrast,…
