By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among US Latinas, a greater degree of European genetic ancestry is associated with increased breast cancer risk, results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining eptifibatide with low-dose recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) appears to be a safe thrombolytic strategy for acute ischemic stroke, study findings in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that most children who are 5-year survivors of liver transplantation have good graft function; however, chronic medical conditions and complications…
Victor Kim, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, discusses COPD risk factors, and current research and developments in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intramuscular implantation of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells is associated with long-term improvements in limb ischemia and may prevent or at least delay…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term, continuous enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with alglucerase or imiglucerase in children with Gaucher disease type 1 normalizes linear growth, enhances bone mineralization,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large study of high-risk hypertensive patients, treatment with the angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor benazepril plus the calcium-channel blocker amlodipine proved more effective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with treatment-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, the quality of life and mortality benefit from being seizure-free with surgery outweighs the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the initial evaluation of elevated blood pressure in children, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is a highly cost-effective means of differentiating stage…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a prospective study of adult patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, nearly one in five had elevated glycosylated hemoglobin A (HbA1c)…
James P. Moises, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Department of Emergency Medicine, Clerkship Director of Emergency Medicine, Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, discusses his experiences working in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of small study suggests that radiotherapy can be safely used to treat prostate cancer in HIV-infected men, having no long-term effect…
