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) – 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 adverse effects of conventional amphotericin B for treating acute cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS patients can be reduced significantly by using the liposomal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A modified procedure intended to improve on Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been shown in an Australian study to actually have…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancer patients found to have micrometastases in the sentinel lymph node (SLN) but who do not undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with diabetes and hypertension, an antihypertensive regimen combining an ACE inhibitor with a calcium channel blocker provides better protection against cardiovascular…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The distress of multiple venipunctures in hospitalized pediatric patients can be avoided by obtaining blood samples through a peripheral venous catheter placed for…
