NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and anemia, targeting higher hemoglobin levels with an erythropoietic agent is not helpful and is very…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For some infertile men with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA), varicocele repair leads to motile sperm in the ejaculate and spontaneous pregnancy, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Up to 20% of tests for estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancers are false negatives or false positives, according to a consensus…
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…
