NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preoperative screening and follow-up treatment if indicated can reduce postoperative infection rates with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients undergoing otolaryngic surgery, new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Consistent with findings from animal studies, data from human subjects suggest that acute MI mobilizes a rare population of very small embryonic-like stem…
Product Manager, Roni Zeiger, MD of Google Health talks about how Google helps you organize your health information. Google health allows you to: * Organize your health information…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the largest cohort study to date, statin treatment was found to reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, regardless of the drug’s lipophilicity…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term follow-up after laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy shows that while many women continue to experience vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain, these symptoms are not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elective repeat cesarean delivery at term but before 39 weeks is associated with higher rates of adverse outcomes, physicians in the US report…
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There appears to be a link between genetically controlled serotonergic modulation of amygdala activity and placebo-induced relief of anxiety, Swedish…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the general population of Japan, coffee consumption is related to a lower risk of cancer of the oral cavity,…
Armand Daccache, MD, Assistant Professor – Retina/Vitreous Section, Associate Director – Residency Program, Yale Eye Center, discusses epidemiology and treatment of ischemic optic neuropathy. References and Resources Athappilly…
John J. Huang, MD, Assistant Professor at the Yale Eye Center, discusses genetic testing to predict development of macular degeneration. References and Resources Stone EM. Genetic testing for…
John J. Huang, MD, Assistant Professor at the Yale Eye Center, talks about diagnosis and treatment of uveitis. References and Resources Ephgrave K. Extra-intestinal manifestations of Crohn’s disease.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic heart failure, higher systolic blood pressures paradoxically predict better survival, according to researchers in the UK. Writing in the…
