NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intensive insulin therapy, targeting a blood glucose level of 130 mg/dL, may improve the likelihood of survival for severely burned children, according to…
These days, everyone is pressed for time, and both doctors and their patients are finding it more and more difficult to eat well. The Pro-Bites line of healthy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with vascular dementia who took the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil had mild improvements in cognitive function, but not global function, in an international…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The TNF alpha inhibitor adalimumab provides minor analgesia in patients with radicular pain due to lumbar disc herniation, but prompts a major reduction…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) does not benefit patients with acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, according to results of a phase III trial. In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) do better when they receive stem cell transplantation during infancy, according to a systematic review published online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The “dramatic benefits” of probiotic supplements for reducing death and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm neonates have been…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Positron emission tomography (PET) of the liver is extremely unreliable in patients who’ve just had chemotherapy for colorectal cancer metastases, because the false-negative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intra-arterial fibrinolysis improves outcomes after acute ischemic stroke, a meta-analysis confirms — and although the treatment increases the risk of hemorrhage, that doesn’t…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urinary dipstick and microscopy testing are not good at finding urinary tract infection when pain is not one of the symptoms, UK researchers…
