NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with relapsing mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis (UC) on immunosuppressive therapy may benefit from the addition of a high-potency probiotic mixture (VSL#3; VSL Pharmaceuticals…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), monopolar transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is being increasingly challenged as the gold standard. Two randomized controlled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is superior to the standard guaiac-based FOBT for detecting advanced colorectal neoplasms and cancer, say…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preprocedural use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs) in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after acute myocardial infarction may improve clinical outcomes, according to…
Elizabeth Szalay, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of New Mexico, discusses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in children in the USA. Only 16% of children in…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, for which medical therapy is totally inadequate and…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the upside and downside of technology to our brain and overall health. Reading: Straker L, Pollock C, Maslen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It doesn’t matter whether or not EMTs do a few minutes’ CPR before defibrillation of cardiac-arrest patients, researchers conclude in a meta-analysis that…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the testing of new compounds like supplements and anti-amyloid compounds to help protect healthy brains before Alzheimer’s disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Peripartum hysterectomy is associated with significantly more complications and deaths compared to nonobstetric hysterectomy, a new study confirms. “We knew that peripartum hysterectomy…
