NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active tuberculosis is more readily found with commercially available interferon-gamma release assays than with tuberculin skin tests, according to a meta-analysis. Furthermore, when…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ventilator-associated pneumonia is less likely to be fatal when patients are intubated with a silver-coated endotracheal tube, according to a post hoc analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Magnetic guidewire navigation is feasible in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to results of a noninferiority trial performed in the Netherlands. Moreover,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When colonoscopy is not possible, combining sigmoidoscopy and a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) would be superior for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening than either…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only about half of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will increase in size, and those that grow less than 1.5 mm per year…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In HIV-infected patients, risk factors for thrombocytopenia include interruptions in antiretroviral therapy, high HIV RNA levels, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and cirrhosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Genital ulcers are common in HIV-infected women when antiretroviral therapy (ART) begins, particularly when CD4 counts are low or when women have had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a mass screening tool for diabetes and pre-diabetes in China, the fasting capillary blood glucose (FCG) test performs better than the hemoglobin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic total coronary occlusions, drug-eluting stents (DES) have better long-term outcomes than bare metal stents, according to a paper from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefits of statins are variable and depend on the agent being taken, a meta-analysis has shown. Pooled data from 10 randomized trials…
