NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia are no better off when treated with prednisolone, according to trial results from The Netherlands. In fact, there’s…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to expectations, individual genetic markers don’t add up to a genetic risk score that’s any better than traditional risk factors for predicting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients with suspected early-stage gallbladder carcinoma, laparoscopy is a safe approach, Korean physicians report in the February Archives of Surgery. “Although…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chest pain of uncertain origin, emergency department evaluation combining clinical history and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level, without exercise…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three weeks of hypofractionated whole-breast radiotherapy is at least as good as 5 weeks of standard radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for invasive cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of paroxetine during tamoxifen therapy reduces the breast cancer survival benefit by 25% or more depending on the amount of time the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With intensive medical therapy, fewer than 5% of patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis will gain additional benefit from revascularization, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Limiting thyroid tests to high-risk women will miss most cases of thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy, randomized trial results show. Furthermore, when low-risk women…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with Huntington’s disease treated with the investigational drug latrepirdine (dimebon) showed signs of improved cognitive function in a 3-month trial, investigators report.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For acute gout flare, a 1-hour low-dose oral colchicine regimen offers comparable efficacy and better tolerability than the more common 6-hour high-dose regimen,…
