NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although often billed as a memory and cognition enhancing product, Ginkgo biloba does not stave off cognitive decline or help prevent dementia and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using catheters impregnated with rifampicin-miconazole instead of standard catheters reduces the incidence of catheter-related bacteremia in patients with short-term catheter use at the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vitamin D deficiency is associated with myocardial dysfunction, sudden cardiac death (SCD), and death due to heart failure, German researchers report. Vitamin D,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing a vigorous weight-bearing exercise regimen during pregnancy appears to be a marker of women who spontaneously maintain this practice over time, resulting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with a single dose of PRO 140, a monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 chemokine receptor, provides potent and prolonged antiviral activity in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sustained clinical improvements in signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are apparent within one week of initiating treatment with a novel pegylated TNF…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children aged 6 to 11 years with inadequately controlled allergic asthma, adding the anti-IgE monoclonal antibody omalizumab (Xolair; Novartis) to optimized treatment…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elective appendectomy performed at the time of cesarean delivery does not increase inpatient morbidity, according to results of a randomized controlled trial. “Based…
Dr. Diane Berson from The Women’s Dermatologic Society discusses its outreach program called Play Safe in the Sun. For more information, please visit: Womensderm.org Sponsored by the Women’s…
Dr. Diane Berson discusses the mission of the Women’s Dermatologic Society. It’s objectives include the following: 1. Foster, promote and support women’s issues in dermatology; 2. Identify, train,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As prophylaxis against ventilator-associated pneumonia, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum 299 (Lp299) is as effective as the antiseptic chlorhexidine in reducing the pathogenic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Direct administration of allergen into the lymph nodes, rather than the skin, reduces both the number and dose of allergen injections required to…
